Scholar and philosopher, born in the parish of Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the 25th of October 1840; graduated at Aberdeen University and taught in various English schools. In 1866 he removed to London, Canada, and thence to the United States, where, in St. Louis, MO, he taught in the high schools. He became connected with the Round Table and the Western Educational Monthly, and in 1875 removed from St. Louis to Cambridge, MA. Many years of his life were spent in Italy, where he made a study of Catholicism, archæology, modern Greek and the scholastic philosophy of Rosmini and Dante. He published The Fragments of Parmenides; On the Origin of Language; The Place of Art and Education; Handbook of Dante from the Italian of Scartazzini; Aristotle’s Metaphysics; and several other translations. Mr. Davidson frequently contributed philosophical and philological articles to various journals. He died on the 14th of September 1900. (See authored article: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.)
