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1809, Jan 19 1827-1849 1849, Oct 7
an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Quotes View in Quotations As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it." I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream. It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Stupidity is a talent for misconception. Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last. That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. The goodness of the true pun is in direct ratio to its intolerability The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true. The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. the play was the tragedy "man" and it's hero the conqueror worm The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. We loved with a love that was more than love. Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it "the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul." The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of "Artist." With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.
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Edgar Allan Poe 1809, Jan 19 1827
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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 ... Alexander Pushkin 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 ... 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.... Huang Yupian unknown 1838 1838 unknown best known as the author of A Detailed Refutation of Heresy , written in 1838. A native of ... 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:... Johan Olof Wallin 1779, Oct 15 1837 1839 1839, Jun 30 a Swedish minister, orator, poet and later Lutheran Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala, Swede... 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... 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-... Ramon Alcaraz unknown 1840 1849 unknown an officer in the Mexican Army who wrote many books about the Mexican-American War, including 184... 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... Maria White Lowell 1821, Jul 8 1839 1853 1853, Oct 27 an American poet and abolitionist. The same year, Maria White's brother William introduced her to... Eliza Allen 1826, Jan 27 1846 1853 unknown a Maine woman who, in 1851, published a memoir called The Female Volunteer; Or the Life and Wo... 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... Charlotte Bronte 1816, Apr 21 1846 1855 1855, Mar 31 an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood... 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... Alexis de Tocqueville 1805, Jul 29 1839 1856 1859, Apr 16 a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (ap... 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... John Snow 1813, Mar 15 1837 1857 1858, Jun 16 an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is consi... Abraham Jacob van der Aa 1792, Dec 7 1839 1857 1857, Mar 21 a Dutch writer best known for his dictionaries. The Aardrijkskundig Woordenboek der Nederlande... William Allen Butler 1825, Feb 20 1843 1857 1902, Sep 9 an American lawyer and writer of poetical satires. He contributed travel writing and comic writin... 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... King Oscar I of Sweden 1799, Jul 4 1844 1859 1859, Jul 8 King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste... Lewis Cass 1782, Oct 9 1806 1860 1866, Jun 17 an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United St... Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806, Mar 6 1838 1860 1861, Jun 29 one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United S... 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, ... Frederick Rinehart Anspach 1815, Jan 1841 1861 1867, Sep 16 a Lutheran clergyman and writer. A sermon delivered on the occasion of the death of Henry Clay wa... 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 ... Samuel A. Cartwright 1793, Nov 3 1837 1862 1863, May 2 a physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States. Cartwrigh... Henry David Thoreau 1817, Jul 12 1837 1862 1862, May 6 an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic... John Bird Sumner 1780, Feb 25 1848 1862 1862, Feb 6 a bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848 to 1862. Sumner's numero... 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... Heinrich Barth 1821, Feb 16 1844 1864 1865, Nov 25 a German explorer of Africa and scholar, thought to be one of the greatest European explorers of ... 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... Henry Timrod 1829, Dec 8 1848 1867 1867, Oct 7 an American poet, often called the poet laureate of the Confederacy. He took a position with a la... 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... Stephen C. Massett unknown 1840 1869 unknown San Francisco's first entertainer, Stephen C. Massett, was the true Bohemian type. He was an arti... 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... Gorham Dummer Abbott 1807, Sep 3 1837 1870 1874, Aug 3 an American clergyman, educator, and author. He was a significant figure in the movement to suppl... 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... Ivar Aasen 1813, Aug 5 1841 1873 1896, Sep 23 a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembl... 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... Tom Taylor 1817, Oct 19 1843 1876 1880, Jul 12 an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine. He wrote ... Dora Greenwell 1821, Dec 6 1848 1876 1882, Mar 29 an English poet. She published her first volume of poems in 1848 through William Pickering, after... 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... Gustave Flaubert 1821, Dec 12 1842 1877 1880, May 8 a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary re... 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... John H. Van Evrie 1814 1842 1879 1896 an American physician and defender of slavery, best known as the editor of the Weekly Day Book an... 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 ... Robert Tomes 1817, Mar 27 1840 1880 1882 American physician, diplomat and writer. Beginning to write around 1853, Tomes gradually relinqui... 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... Niceto de Zamacois 1820 1846 1882 1885 a Spanish-born Mexican historian, novelist, poet and journalist. He emigrated to Mexico in 1840. ... 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... Alexandre Dumas the Younger 1824, Jul 27 1847 1887 1895, Nov 27 a French writer and dramatist, best known for Camille (a.k.a. The Lady of the Camellias). He was... 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... James Russell Lowell 1819, Feb 22 1840 1889 1891, Aug 12 an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets... Henry Walter Bates 1825, Feb 8 1843 1889 1892, Feb 16 an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. H... Thomas Woolner 1825, Dec 17 1843 1889 1892, Oct 7 an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood... Napoleon Aubin 1812, Nov 9 1829 1890 1890, Jun 12 a Canadian journalist, publisher, playwright, and scientist. Born in Geneva, Aubin sailed to the ... Richard Burton 1821, Mar 19 1842 1890 1890, Oct 20 a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologi... Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 1827 1891 1892 Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one... Samuel Baker 1821, Jun 8 1846 1891 1893, Dec 30 a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He a... 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... Francis Parkman Jr. 1823, Sep 16 1846 1892 1893, Nov 8 an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky... Daniel Kirkwood 1814, Sep 27 1839 1895 1895, Jun 11 an American astronomer. Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland to John and Agnes (née Hop... Oluf Andreas Aabel 1825, Oct 9 1847 1895 1895, Dec 24 a Norwegian priest and writer. He translated Georg Benedikt Winer's Grammatik des neutestament... 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... William Powell Frith 1819, Jan 19 1838 1902 1909, Nov 9 an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the V... Elizabeth Chase Allen 1832, Oct 9 1845 1902 1911, Aug 7 an American author, journalist and poet. She began to write at the age of fifteen, under the pen ... Andrew Graham 1815, Apr 8 1848 1903 1907, Nov 5 an Irish astronomer/computer. He discovered the asteroid 9 Metis in 1848 whilst employed at Markr... Fanny Crosby 1820, Mar 24 1843 1915 1915, Feb 12 an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. A member of the Sixth Avenue Bible Bapt... 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...
