John Milton Mackie (19 December 1813, in
Wareham, Massachusetts
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Wareham is in the southern outskirts of Greater Boston, and is a part of the South Coast (Massa ...
– 27 July 1894, in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
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) was an American writer who specialized in topics from German history and
literature
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.
Biography
He graduated from
Brown University
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in 1832, and studied at the
University of Berlin
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The university was established by Frederick William III on the initiative of Wilhelm von Humbol ...
, Germany, 1833–1834. On his return to the United States, he was tutor at Brown 1835–1838. He contributed articles on German topics to the ''
North American Review
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'', ''
American Whig Review'', and ''Christian''.
Books
* ''Life of
Godfrey William von Leibnitz'', with
Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (Boston, 1845) a
archive.org* ''Life of
Samuel Gorton'' in
Sparks's “American Biography” series (1848)
* ''Cosas de España, or Going to
Madrid
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via
Barcelona
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'' (New York, 1848)
* ''Life of
Schamyl, the Circassian Chief'' (1856)
* ''Life of Tai-Ping-Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrection'' (1857)
* ''From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics'' (1864)
Notes
References
* This work in turn cites ''Andover Theological Seminary 1894-95 Necrology'', pg. 146.
Attribution
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1813 births
1894 deaths
Brown University alumni
American male non-fiction writers
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
People from Wareham, Massachusetts
Writers from Massachusetts
Historians of Germany
Brown University faculty
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