American author, born in Salem, MA, on the 20th of June 1813; died in Newport, RI, on the 14th of June 1883. He graduated from Harvard in 1832, and after pursuing a course of study in theology began to preach in 1835. Two years later he became pastor of a Unitarian church in Newport, RI. He published poems, sermons, a Life of William Ellery Channing (1880), and a book concerning his travels in India. He is best known as a German translator. Some of his translations are Schiller’s William Tell; Homage of the Arts; Goethe’s Faust; Richter’s Titan and Hesperus.
