George Henry Calvert
{{short description|American poet}}
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| spouse = Elizabeth Steuart
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Rosalie Stier Calvert
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| office = Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island
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George Henry Calvert (January 2, 1803 – May 24, 1889) was an American editor, essayist, dramatist, poet, and biographer.[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/george-henry-calvert-dlb/ Biographical sketch] from the Dictionary of Literary Biography He was the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the newly established College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Baltimore, and in 1854 he served as Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island.
Biography
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Calvert was born January 2, 1803, in Prince George County, Maryland.{{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Welcome Arnold|title=The Providence Plantations for 250 Years|date=1881|publisher=J.A. & R.A. Reid|location=Providence, RI|page=442}} His mother, Rosalie Eugenia Stier (1778–1821), was the daughter of a wealthy Belgian aristocrat, Baron Henri Joseph Stier (1743–1821) and his wife Marie Louise Peeters. His father, George Calvert (1768–1838), was the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert – a natural son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore – and his wife Elizabeth Calvert (1731–1788).
George Calvert was the Calverts' eldest son. He grew up in Maryland, graduated from Harvard College in 1823, and studied in Germany where in March 1825 he met the poet Goethe. Returning to Baltimore, he edited the Baltimore American. In 1840 he made another trip to Europe, meeting William Wordsworth.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} In 1843, Calvert moved to Newport, Rhode Island.
Marriage
On May 11, 1829, George Calvert married Elizabeth Steuart (1802–1897). His father was opposed to the match on the grounds that Elizabeth, the daughter of Baltimore physician James Steuart, had little property to her name. However a compromise was eventually reached and, after a suitable delay, the couple were married at the Steuart house in West Baltimore, Maryland Square.
George and Elizabeth had no children.Challcott, p.375
Academia and politics
In 1830, Calvert was appointed the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the newly established College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Baltimore.
In 1853, Calvert was elected Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island, and served a term from October 1853 to June 1854.
Works
- "Cabiro," a poem in the stanza of "Don Juan," of which two cantos were published in 1840, and two more in 1864
- {{Citation | title=Scenes and Thoughts in Europe | place=New York | publisher=Wiley & Putnam | year=1846}}
- Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847
- {{Citation | title=Introduction to Social Science: A Discourse in Three Parts | place=New York | publisher=Redfield | year=1856}}
- Comedies (1856)
- The Gentleman, Boston: E.P. Dutton and Company, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866
- Anyta and other Poems (1863)
- First Years in Europe (1867)
- Ellen, a Poem (1869)
- Goethe, his Life and Works (1872)
- Essays Aesthetical, Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1875, New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875
- {{Citation | title=Arnold and Andre. An Historical Drama | place=New York | publisher=Lee and Shepard | year=1876}}
He translated and published in 1845 a portion of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller.
In 1866 he also translated and had published Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert.
Notes
References
- {{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Calvert, George Henry}}
External links
- [http://www.lib.umd.edu/binaries/content/assets/public/special/projects/riversdale/calvertfamilytree.pdf Calvert Family Tree] (accessed 10 Jul 2013)
- {{Gutenberg author |id=4698| name=George Henry Calvert}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=George Henry Calvert |sopt=t}}
- {{find a Grave|19522649}}
- [https://archive.org/details/gentleman01calvgoog The Gentleman] at [https://books.google.com Google Books]
- [https://www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001/acref-9780199754663-e-170?rskey=qMi9VQ&result=170 The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers] at [https://www.oxfordreference.com Oxford Reference]
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