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1799, Jun 6 1814-1837 1837, Feb 10
a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin published his first poem at the age of fifteen, and was widely recognized by the literary establishment by the time of his graduation from the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. While under the strict surveillance of the Tsar's political police and unable to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, the drama Boris Godunov . His novel in verse, Eugene Onegin , was serialized between 1825 and 1832.
Quotes View in Quotations 'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking, Fragments of being, while together you and I, Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.
But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.
Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.
Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.
Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.
I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The storms of ruthless dispensation Have struck my flowery garland numb, I live in lonely desolation And wonder when my end will come. Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted By tardy winter's whistling chill, A single leaf which has outlasted Its season will be trembling still.
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.
I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.
I was not born to amuse the Tsars.
I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.
It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.
It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather
of mind got clarity new-found;
now free, I once more weave together
emotion, thought, and magic sound.
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!
My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
Please, never despise the translator. He's the mailman of human civilization.
Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family.
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery. Then came a moment of renaissance,
I looked up - you again are there,
A fleeting vision, the quintessence
Of all that`s beautiful and rare.
There yet remains but one concluding tale, And then this chronicle of mine is ended - Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me, A sinner. Not without purpose did the Lord, Put me to witness much for many years, And educate me in the love of books. One day some indefatigable monk, Will find my conscientious, unsigned work; Like me, he will light up his ikon-lamp, And, shaking from the scroll the age-old dust, He will transcribe these tales in all their truth.
Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.
To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him.
With womankind, the less we love them, the easier they become to charm.
Write for pleasure and publish for money.
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Alexander Pushkin 1799, Jun 6 1814
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David Ramsay 1749, Apr 2 1773 1815 1815, May 8 an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one... Benjamin Smith Barton 1766, Feb 10 1789 1815 1815, Dec 19 an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. Barton corresponded with naturalists throughout ... Xu Song 1781 1802 1816 1848 a Chinese official exiled to Central Asia during the period of the military governorship of Xinji... Friedrich Maximilian Klinger 1752, Feb 17 1773 1817 1831, Feb 25 a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave name to the Sturm und Drang... Nathan Drake 1766, Jan 15 1780 1817 1836 an English essayist and physician. Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786... Jane Austen 1775, Dec 16 1787 1817 1817, Jul 18 an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a pl... Anne Seymour Damer 1749, Nov 8 1784 1818 1828, May 28 an English sculptor and novelist. During the period 1784–1818, Damer exhibited 32 works as an h... Jacob Axelsson Lindblom 1746, Jul 27 1779 1819 1819, Feb 15 a Swedish scholar who eventually became archbishop of Uppsala for the Lutheran Swedish Church, a ... Mary Ann Hanway unknown 1790 1819 unknown an eighteenth century travel writer and novelist. She has been proposed as the anonymous author o... Charles Holt unknown 1797 1819 unknown printer, political provacateur Caroline Burney unknown 1800 1819 unknown the probably pseudonymous author of two early 19th-century three-volume novels published in Londo... Jonathan Ashe unknown 1810 1819 unknown an Irish masonic write born in Limerick. Very little is known of him except that he commenced and... Francis Balfour unknown 1810 1819 unknown a British medical officer and medical author who lived and worked primarily in British India. The... George Greene 1747 ca 1810 1819 unknown a traveller, land-steward and writer. In 1787 a decree in the court of chancery deprived him of t... Henry Fuseli 1741, Feb 7 1761 1820 1825, Apr 17 a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his... Moses Hoge 1752, Feb 15 1787 1820 1820, Jul 5 a Presbyterian minister and educator. He served as the sixth President of Hampden–Sydney Colleg... John Keats 1795 1814 1820 1821 an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poe... Joaquim Machado de Castro 1731, Jun 19 1770 1822 1822, Nov 17 one of Portugal's foremost sculptors, and a celebrated figure throughout Europe in the eighteenth... Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749, Sep 19 1788 1822 1822, Aug 19 a French mathematician and astronomer. He was also director of the Paris Observatory, and author ... Frodsham Hodson 1770, Jun 7 1791 1822 1822, Jan 18 an English churchman and academic, the Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1809. He edite... Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792, Aug 4 1810 1822 1822, Jul 8 one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as we... Thomas Jefferson 1743, Apr 2 1767 1824 1826, Jul 4 an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and ... Hannah Adams 1755, Oct 2 1784 1824 1831, Dec 15 an American author of books on comparative religion and early United States history. She was born... Mary Charlton unknown 1794 1824 unknown a novelist and translator who wrote at least ten novels between 1794 and 1824. She also translate... George Gordon Byron 1788, Jan 22 1805 1824 1824, Apr 19 an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are... William Hull 1753, Jun 24 1775 1825 1825, Nov 29 an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was appointed as Gov... Claude Henri de Rouvroy 1760, Oct 17 1779 1825 1825, May 19 a French political and economic theorist and businessperson whose thought played a substantial ro... Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749, Mar 23 1771 1827 1827, Mar 5 an influential French scholar whose work was important to the development of mathematics, statist... Franz Xaver von Zach 1754, Jun 4 1780 1827 1832, Sep 2 a Hungarian astronomer born in Pest, Hungary. Zach published Tables of the Sun (Gotha, 179... William Maclure 1763, Oct 27 1782 1827 1840, Mar 23 an Americanized Scottish geologist, cartographer and philanthropist. He is known as the 'father o... Luigi Romanelli 1751, Jul 21 1785 1828 1839, Mar 1 an Italian opera librettist. Romanelli was born in Rome. He wrote tens of librettos, most of them... Hannah Webster Foster 1758, Sep 10 1770 1829 1840, Apr 17 an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton ... Sir Humphry Davy 1778, Dec 17 1795 1829 1829, May 29 a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkal... Thomas Boys 1792 1820 1829 1880 an Anglican priest and theologian. Boys was a prolific writer. In 1825 he published a key to the ... Heinrich Jonas Gudehus 1776 1820 1829 1831 a native of Braunschweig, a northern German, who came to America early in the 1820's seeking fort... Jonathan Swift 1667, Nov 30 1690 183 1745, Oct 19 an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Torie... William Dimond 1750 ca 1800 1830 1837 ca a playwright, the eldest surviving son of William Wyatt Dimond (c. 1750-1812), actor and theatric... Elizabeth Beverley unknown 1815 1830 unknown a travelling English entertainer and pamphleteer. One of Beverley's works, Modern Times (1818) wa... Richard Allen [2] 1760, Feb 14 1777 1831 1831, Mar 26 a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential black leaders. In ... Marianne Ehrenstrom 1773, Dec 9 1790 1831 1867, Jan 4 a Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, memorialist, principal and lady-... John Watkins [2] unknown 1792 1831 unknown an English miscellaneous writer, known as a biographer. He is most famous for being the author of... Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770, Aug 27 1793 1831 1831, Nov 14 a German philosopher and an important figure of German Idealism. He achieved wide renown in his d... Sir Walter Scott 1771, Aug 15 1796 1831 1832, Sep 21 a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Au... Jean-Francois Champollion 1790, Dec 23 1806 1831 1832, Mar 4 a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of the Egyptian ... Nat Turner 1800, Oct 2 1822 1831 1831, Nov 11 an African-American slave who led a slave rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton Coun... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749, Aug 28 1770 1832 1832, Mar 22 a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a varie... Bryan Procter 1787, Nov 21 1815 1832 1874, Oct 5 an English poet. Most of his verse was composed between 1815, when he began to contribute to the ... Emily Clark unknown 1798 1833 unknown an English novelist of the 18th century. There is very little information available about the det... Charles Lamb 1775, Feb 10 1798 1833 1834, Dec 27 an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tal... Thomas Allen [3] 1803 1827 1833 1833 an English topographer. In 1827 Allen published a quarto volume, The History and Antiquities o... William Dunlap 1766, Feb 19 1783 1834 1839, Sep 28 a pioneer of American theater. He was a producer, playwright, and actor, as well as a historian. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772, Oct 21 1792 1834 1834, Jul 25 an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a f... William Wirt 1772, Nov 8 1792 1834 1834, Feb 18 an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attor... James Hogg 1770 1797 1835 1835, Nov 21 a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he wor... Thomas Edwards [5] 1775 1805 1835 1845, Oct 20 a British legal writer. Edwards studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded LL.B. in 1... Robert Southey 1774, Aug 12 1791 1837 1843, Mar 21 an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for ... Mrs Markham 1780, Aug 3 1823 1837 1837, Jan 24 an English writer. The best known of her books was A History of England from the First Invasion b... Georg Buchner 1813, Oct 17 1828 1837 1837, Feb 19 a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.... Christian Heinrich Nebbien 1778 1783 1839 1841 a German-born landscaping architect, mainly active in Austria. He also wrote a book on the metho... Solomon Southwick 1773, Dec 25 1792 1839 1839, Nov 18 a New York newspaper publisher and political figure who was a principal organizer of the Anti-Mas... Marta Helena Reenstierna 1753, Sep 16 1793 1839 1841, Jan 12 a Swedish diary writer. Her diaries were written in the period 1793–1839, and are kept at the a... Charles Follen 1796, Sep 6 1818 1839 1840, Jan 13 a German poet and patriot, who later moved to the United States and became the first professor of... Joseph Antoine Cervini unknown 1820 1839 unknown an author who provided the text for a book titled Voyage Pittoresque dans les Pyrénées Françai... Huang Juezi 1793 1823 1839 1853 a Chinese Qing dynasty scholar and civil servant and a fervent opponent of the opium trade. His 1... Thomas Ruffin Gray 1800 1830 1839 unknown an attorney who represented several enslaved people during the trials in the wake of Nat Turner's... William Toone unknown 1830 1839 unknown Author of A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary: Of Obsolete and Uncommon Words (Bennett:... Joel Root 1770 1802 1840 1847 the author of a journal of his voyage around the world (1802–1806) while working as supercargo ... Francis Scott Key 1779, Aug 1 1805 1840 1843, Jan 11 an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland and later Georgetown, D.C.,... Edmund Fanning [2] 1769, Jul 16 1773 1841 1841, Apr 23 an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." As master of the ... Asher Benjamin 1773, Jun 15 1794 1841 1845, Jul 26 an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal style architecture and t... Washington Allston 1779, Nov 5 1801 1841 1843, Jul 9 an American painter and poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina. Allston pioneered America'... Marguerite Gardiner 1789, Sep 1 1829 1841 1849, Jun 4 an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess. After her husband's death she supplemented h... Noah Webster 1758, Oct 16 1781 1843 1843, May 28 an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer... Alexander Griswold 1766, Apr 22 1836 1843 1843, Feb 15 the 5th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1836 till 1843. He was also the Episcopal B... Yevgeny Baratynsky 1800, Feb 19 1820 1844 1844, Jul 11 A poet, lauded by Alexander Pushkin as the finest Russian elegiac poet. A member of the noble Bar... Joseph Smith 1805, Dec 23 1827 1844 1844, Jun 27 an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he ... Thomas S. Hinde 1785, Apr 19 1801 1845 1846, Feb 9 an American newspaper editor, opponent of slavery, author, historian, real estate investor, Metho... Joseph Story 1779, Sep 18 1801 1845 1845, Sep 10 an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1... Thomas Moore 1779, May 28 1795 1846 1852, Feb 25 an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Min... Erik Gustaf Geijer 1783, Jan 12 1803 1846 1847, Apr 23 a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swed... Edouard Alletz 1798 1822 1846 1850 a French diplomat who wrote a large variety of poems, history, and essays between the years of 18... William Wordsworth 1770, Apr 7 1787 1847 1850, Apr 23 a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Ag... Robert Montgomery Bird 1806, Feb 5 1827 1847 1854, Jan 23 an American novelist, playwright, and physician. In 1828, Bird's play Pelopidas won a $1000 prize... Christianus Petrus Eliza Robide van der Aa 1791, Oct 7 1811 1848 1851, May 14 a Dutch jurist and author. In the Volksbode, which he edited and almost singlehandedly wrote from... Nikolai Gogol 1809, Mar 19 1828 1848 1852, Feb 21 a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries one ... Horace Wells 1815, Jan 21 1836 1848 1848, Jan 24 an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide ... Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela 1782, Mar 19 1802 1849 1856, Feb 18 a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. In the field of astronomy, he speciali... Leo von Klenze 1784, Feb 29 1808 1849 1864, Jan 26 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ... William Miller 1782, Feb 15 1809 1849 1849, Dec 20 an American Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American r... Edgar Allan Poe 1809, Jan 19 1827 1849 1849, Oct 7 an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stori... Joseph Zedner 1804, Feb 10 1830 1849 1871, Oct 10 a German Jewish bibliographer and librarian. In 1832 he became a tutor in the family of the book-... Mary Shelley 1797, Aug 30 1810 1850 1851, Feb 1 an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best... Richard Garnett 1789, Jul 25 1811 1850 1850, Sep 27 an English philologist (historical linguist), author and librarian at the British Museum. Garnett... Frederic Bastiat 1801, Jun 30 1818 1850 1850, Dec 24 a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, Freemason, and member of the French Nat... Edward Boys 1749 1796 1851 1866 an English sea captain. In 1803, Boys, when in charge of a prize, was made prisoner by the French... Lorenz Oken 1779, Aug 1 1802 1851 1851, Aug 11 a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (Germa... Sylvester Graham 1794, Jul 5 1828 1851 1851, Sep 11 a 19th-century Presbyterian minister, was an American dietary reformer, best known for his emphas... Petar II Petrovic-Njegos 1813, Nov 1 1830 1851 1851, Oct 19 a Prince-Bishop (vladika) of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered s... Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen 1778, Sep 9 1796 1852 1852, Jan 13 a Baltic-German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose ... Francois Arago 1786, Feb 26 1804 1852 1853, Oct 2 a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the carbonari and politici... Eliza Lanesford Cushing 1794, Oct 19 1820 1852 1886, May 4 an American-Canadian dramatist, short story writer, and editor. The daughter of Hannah Webster Fo... John Lloyd Stephens 1805, Nov 28 1834 1852 1852, Oct 13 an American explorer, writer, and diplomat. He initially entered law practice in New York. After ... Thomas De Quincey 1785, Aug 15 1802 1853 1859, Dec 8 an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many... Almeida Garrett 1799, Feb 4 1818 1854 1854, Dec 9 a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist and politician. He is considered to be the introducer of ... Thomas Chilton 1798, Jul 30 1819 1854 1854, Aug 15 a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, a prominent Baptist clergyman, and the ghost writer of Davy ... Daniel Florence O'Leary 1801 1820 1854 1854 a military general and aide-de-camp under Simon Bolivar. He was born in Cork, Ireland; his father... Robert Schumann 1810 1830 1854 1856 a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest comp... Leigh Hunt 1784, Oct 19 1801 1855 1859, Aug 28 an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. In 1816 he made a mark in English literature with ... Gerard de Nerval 1808, May 22 1824 1855 1855, Jan 26 the nom-de-plume of the French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie. A major fi... Thomas Bailey 1785, Jul 31 1820 1856 1856, Oct 23 an English topographer and miscellaneous writer. In 1845-6 he became proprietor and editor of the... Eduard Morike 1804, Sep 8 1831 1856 1875, Jun 4 a German Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. His first published work was the novel ... Carlo Bassi 1807 1833 1856 1856 an Italian entomologist. Bassi wrote Description du genre Malacogaster in Guérin-Méneville's Ma... Robert Owen 1771, May 14 1792 1857 1858, Nov 17 a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement... Delia Bacon 1811, Feb 2 1825 1857 1859, Sep 2 an American writer of plays and short stories and a sister of the Congregational minister Leonard... Parley P. Pratt 1807, Apr 12 1830 1857 1857, May 13 an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early ninete... Charles David Badham 1805, Aug 27 1833 1857 1857, Jul 14 an English writer, physician, entomologist, and mycologist. David Badham seems to have started hi... Sergey Aksakov 1791, Sep 20 1812 1858 1859, Apr 30 a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family l... Charles Hamilton Smith 1776, Dec 26 1787 1859 1859, Sep 21 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega... Pierre Adolphe Piorry 1794, Dec 31 1816 1859 1879, May 29 a French physician born in Poitiers. He invented pleximetry (a method for the investigation of in... Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800, Oct 25 1825 1859 1859, Dec 28 a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his bo... Lewis Cass 1782, Oct 9 1806 1860 1866, Jun 17 an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United St... Franz Grillparzer 1791, Jan 15 1811 1861 1872, Jan 21 an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van ... Taras Shevchenko 1814, Mar 9 1822 1861 1861, Mar 10 a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnogra... James H. Ward 1806, Sep 25 1823 1861 1861, Jun 27 the first officer of the United States Navy killed during the American Civil War. He taught cours... Stephen P. Hill 1806, Apr 17 1832 1861 1884, Sep 15 a Baptist clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Senate. He was educated at Waterville College, ... George Washington Bethune 1805, Mar 18 1827 1862 1862, Apr 28 a preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church. He was an outspoken Democrat in politics, opposed... Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804, Jul 4 1836 1862 1864, May 19 an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers ... Andrew Bell unknown 1827 1863 unknown a Scottish-born Canadian journalist. He was well educated. His work and life is well known in the... William Makepeace Thackeray 1811, Jul 18 1829 1863 1863, Dec 24 an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanit... Hans Christian Andersen 1805, Apr 2 1822 1864 1875, Aug 4 a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is... Edward Everett 1794, Apr 11 1813 1865 1865, Jan 15 an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whi... Richard L. Allen 1803, Oct 20 1833 1865 1869, Sep 22 an American writer on agriculture. In 1842 he started the American Agriculturist in partnership w... William Benton Clulow 1802 1835 1865 1882, Apr 16 an English dissenting minister, tutor and writer. Clulow was a native of Leek, Staffordshire, and... William Gilmore Simms 1806, Apr 17 1825 1866 1870, Jun 11 a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence du... Menachem Mendel Schneersohn 1789, Sep 9 1831 1866 1866, Mar 17 an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th century posek, and the third Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chab... Elizabeth Caroline Grey 1798 1820 1867 1869 a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation... Antoine-Henri Jomini 1779, Mar 6 1798 1869 1869, Mar 24 a Swiss officer who served as a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one o... John P. Kennedy 1795, Oct 25 1819 1870 1870, Aug 18 an American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from J... Charles Dickens 1812, Feb 7 1832 1870 1870, Jun 9 an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characte... Mary Fairfax Somerville 1780, Dec 26 1811 1872 1872, Nov 29 a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was disco... Charles Darwin 1809, Feb 12 1827 1872 1882, Apr 19 an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution... George Catlin 1796, Jul 26 1830 1872 1872, Dec 23 an American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the... Anyos Jedlik 1800, Jan 11 1817 1873 1895, Dec 13 a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hu... Edward Bulwer-Lytton 1803, May 25 1825 1873 1873, Jan 18 an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading ... William Lloyd Garrison 1805, Dec 10 1830 1873 1879, May 23 was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best kn... William Cullen Bryant 1794, Nov 3 1815 1874 1878, Jun 12 American romantic poet, journalist and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. "Thanatopsi... Eugene Viollet-le-Duc 1814, Jan 27 1830 1874 1879, Sep 17 a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive "restorations" of medieval buildings... John Stevens Cabot Abbott 1805, Sep 19 1834 1876 1877, Jun 17 an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer. He was a voluminous writer of books on Chr... Pyotr Vyazemsky 1792, Jul 23 1813 1877 1878, Nov 22 a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. In the 1820s Vyazemsky was the most co... Thomas Carlyle 1795, Dec 4 1821 1878 1881, Feb 5 a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Considered one of the ... Zachariah Allen 1795, Sep 15 1815 1879 1882, Mar 17 an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Provi... Fernan Caballero 1796, Dec 24 1821 1879 1877, Apr 7 the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish no... Jacob Abbott 1803, Nov 14 1825 1879 1879, Oct 31 an American writer of children's books. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief... Orson Pratt 1811, Sep 19 1831 1879 1881, Oct 3 an American mathematician and religious leader who was an original member of the Quorum of Twelve... Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807, Jul 4 1833 1879 1882, Jun 2 an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy. H... Charles Reade 1814, Jun 8 1835 1879 1884, Apr 11 an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Reade began his li... Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 1836 1879 1882 an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th c... Benjamin Disraeli 1804, Dec 21 1826 1880 1881, Apr 19 a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in ... William Swan Plumer 1802, Jul 26 1834 1880 1880, Oct 22 an American clergyman, theologian and author who was recognized as an intellectual leader of the ... Leonard Bacon 1802, Feb 19 1825 1881 1881, Dec 24 an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven ... John William Draper 1811, May 5 1832 1881 1882, Jan 4 an English-American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807, Feb 27 1824 1882 1882, Mar 24 an American poet and educator whose works include Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and E... Gottfried Kinkel 1815, Aug 11 1836 1882 1882, Nov 12 a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison i... Karl Marx 1818, May 5 1836 1882 1883, Mar 14 a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia t... Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 1823 1884 1888 an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways... Thomas William Webb 1807, Dec 14 1829 1885 1885, May 19 a British astronomer. Through his career T. W. Webb served as a clergyman at various places inclu... Dion Boucicault 1820/22, Dec 26 1834 1885 1890, Sep 18 an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. His first play, A Legend of the Devil'... Sarah T. Bolton 1814, Dec 8 1828 1886 1893, Aug 5 an American poet and activist. She has been called Indiana's "pioneer poet" and is best known for... James Freeman Clarke 1810, Apr 4 1833 1888 1888, Jun 8 an American theologian and author. In 1839 he returned to Boston where he and his friends establi... Theodore Sedgwick Fay 1807, Feb 10 1828 1889 1898, Nov 17 a writer from the United States who spent much of his life in Germany. Fay initially worked as a ... John Ruskin 1819, Feb 8 1829 1889 1900, Jan 20 the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, water... Robert Browning 1812, May 7 1833 1889 1889, Dec 12 an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremo... Napoleon Aubin 1812, Nov 9 1829 1890 1890, Jun 12 a Canadian journalist, publisher, playwright, and scientist. Born in Geneva, Aubin sailed to the ... Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 1827 1891 1892 Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one... John Greenleaf Whittier 1807, Dec 17 1826 1892 1892, Sep 7 an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently... John Greenleaf Adams 1810 1831 1897 1897 co-editor with Dr. E.H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion and alone for the... George Dod Armstrong 1813, Sep 15 1832 1899 1899, May 11 a Presbyterian minister and author born in Mendham, New Jersey. In 1855 his family was nearly des... Philip James Bailey 1816, Apr 22 1834 1901 1902, Sep 6 an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of his one voluminous poem, Festus , fi... Rebecca Hammond Lard 1772, Mar 7 1786 194 1855, Sep 28 called by some critics "the first poet in Indiana". Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early...
