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Poems 2 exemplaren
Ancient Greece (1847) 2 exemplaren

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Geboortedatum
1800-10-03
Overlijdensdatum
1891-01-17
Graflocatie
Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Plaats van overlijden
Washington, D.C., USA
Woonplaatsen
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Heidelberg, Germany
Göttingen, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Washington, D.C., USA (toon alle 7)
Rose Cliff, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Opleiding
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard College
University of Göttingen (PhD ∙ 1820)
Beroepen
historian
professor
poet
translator
customs officer
Secretary of the Navy (toon alle 10)
Secretary of War
established the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, USA
established the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
minister to Berlin
Relaties
Bancroft, Aaron (father)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (friend)
Hallam, Arthur Henry (friend)
Organisaties
American Historical Association ( [1886])
American Geographical Society (founding member ∙ president)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
North American Review
Customs of the Port of Boston (toon alle 7)
United States Naval Academy
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910)
Chosen by Congress to give eulogy for President Lincoln
Bancroft treaties
USS Bancroft
Bancroft Hall, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland
Bancroft Hall, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire (toon alle 7)
Bancroft Tower, Worcester, Massachusetts
Korte biografie
As Collector of Customs of the Port of Boston, Bancroft hired Nathaniel Hawthorne and Orestes Brownson.

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The first American scholar to actually work with Goethe, brought back enlightenment themes from the German, and antedated and contributed to the flowering of Transcendentalism. Appeals to free markets and the existence of a factual truth free of prejudice.
He saw himself as a scribe of important dynamics: "The formation in the New World of a people of European origin with a political life of its own was the most pregnant event of the seventeenth century....every effort, every contention, every war pointed to the rivalry of the powers of Europe in North America." It's hard not to get caught up in the sweep arm of this clock.… (meer)
 
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