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George Ticknor, the Glossary

George Ticknor (August 1, 1791 – January 26, 1871) was an American academician and Hispanist, specializing in the subject areas of languages and literature.^[1]

54 relations: Academician, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Amory–Ticknor House, Anna Eliot Ticknor, Belles-lettres, Boston, Boston Athenæum, Boston Public Library, Charles Henry Hart, Classics, Cyrus Augustus Bartol, Dante Alighieri, Dartmouth College, Edwin Percy Whipple, Elisha Ticknor, Europe, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Ferdinand Wolf, Ferris Greenslet, France, French language, French literature, Friedrich Bouterwek, George Stillman Hillard, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Harvard University, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hispanism, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Milton, John S. J. Gardiner, Klemens von Metternich, Law, Linguistics, Literary criticism, Literature, Massachusetts General Hospital, Pascual de Gayangos y Arce, Portugal, Portuguese literature, Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston, Samuel Parr, Sheila Heti, Spain, Spanish language, Spanish literature, The Modern Language Journal, Trinity Church, Boston (Summer Street), ... Expand index (4 more) »
Academics from Boston
American Hispanists
Literary critics of Spanish
Trustees of the Boston Public Library

Academician

An academician is a full member of an artistic, literary, engineering, or scientific academy.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Amory–Ticknor House

The Amory–Ticknor House is a historic house at 9–10 Park Street and 22–22A Beacon Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Anna Eliot Ticknor

Anna Eliot Ticknor (Boston, Massachusetts, June 1, 1823 – October 5, 1896) was an American educator, who launched the first correspondence school in the United States, and pioneered public libraries in Massachusetts.

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Belles-lettres

Belles-lettres is a category of writing, originally meaning beautiful or fine writing.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston Athenæum

The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States.

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Boston Public Library

The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848.

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Charles Henry Hart

Charles Henry Hart (February 4, 1847, Philadelphia – July 29, 1918, New York City) was an American art expert and author.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Cyrus Augustus Bartol

Cyrus Augustus Bartol (April 30, 1813 – December 16, 1900) was a Unitarian pastor, author, and hymnist.

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886) was an American essayist and critic. George Ticknor and Edwin Percy Whipple are Trustees of the Boston Public Library.

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Elisha Ticknor

Elisha Ticknor (born March 25, 1757, in Lebanon, Connecticut) was an educator and merchant primarily in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Ferdinand Wolf

Ferdinand Wolf (8 December 1796, Vienna – 18 February 1866, Vienna) was a scholar of Romance studies from Austria.

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Ferris Greenslet

Ferris Lowell Greenslet (June 30, 1875 in Glens Falls, New York – November 19, 1959 in Boston) was an American editor and writer.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French literature

French literature generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written by people living in France who speak traditional languages of France other than French.

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Friedrich Bouterwek

Friedrich Ludewig Bouterwek (15 April 1766 – 9 August 1828) was a German philosopher and critic, born to a mining director at Oker, Electorate of Saxony; today a district of Goslar in Lower Saxony. George Ticknor and Friedrich Bouterwek are university of Göttingen alumni.

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George Stillman Hillard

George Stillman Hillard (September 22, 1808 – January 21, 1879) was an American lawyer and author. George Ticknor and George Stillman Hillard are Trustees of the Boston Public Library.

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette, was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington, in the American Revolutionary War.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. George Ticknor and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are Spanish–English translators.

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Hispanism

Hispanism (sometimes referred to as Hispanic studies or Spanish studies) is the study of the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, principally that of Spain and Hispanic America.

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Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi

Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, also known as Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi, (9 May 1773 – 25 June 1842), whose real surname was Simonde, was a Swiss historian and political economist, who is best known for his works on French and Italian history, and his economic ideas.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.

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John S. J. Gardiner

John Sylvester John Gardiner (1765–1830), aka John S. J. Gardiner, was an American Episcopal priest.

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Klemens von Metternich

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein; Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a conservative Austrian statesman and diplomat who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades as the Austrian Empire's foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.

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Law

Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate.

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Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language.

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Literary criticism

A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Pascual de Gayangos y Arce

Pascual de Gayangos y Arce (June 21, 1809 – October 4, 1897) was a Spanish scholar and orientalist.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Portuguese literature

Portuguese literature is literature written in the Portuguese language, from the Portuguese-speaking world.

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Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston

The Provident Institution for Savings (est.1816) in Boston, Massachusetts, was the first chartered savings bank in the United States.

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Samuel Parr

Samuel Parr (26 January 1747 – 6 March 1825), was an English schoolmaster, writer, minister and Doctor of Law.

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Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti (born 25 December 1976) is a Canadian writer.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spanish literature

Spanish literature generally refers to literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain.

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The Modern Language Journal

The Modern Language Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations.

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Trinity Church, Boston (Summer Street)

Trinity Church (1735–1872) was an Episcopal church in Boston, Massachusetts, located on Summer Street.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Göttingen

The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, commonly referred to as Georgia Augusta) is a distinguished public research university in the city of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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William H. Prescott

William Hickling Prescott (May 4, 1796 – January 28, 1859) was an American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian. George Ticknor and William H. Prescott are American Hispanists.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ticknor

Also known as G. Ticknor, Ticknor, George.

, United States, University of Göttingen, William H. Prescott, William Shakespeare.

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See also

Academics from Boston

American Hispanists

Literary critics of Spanish

Trustees of the Boston Public Library

References