John Milton Mackie (19 December 1813, in Wareham, Massachusetts – 27 July 1894, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts) was an American writer who specialized in topics from German history and literature.
Biography edit
He graduated from Brown University in 1832, and studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1833–1834. On his return to the United States, he was tutor at Brown 1835–1838. He contributed articles on German topics to the North American Review, American Whig Review, and Christian.
Books edit
- Life of Godfrey William von Leibnitz, with Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (Boston, 1845) at archive.org
- Life of Samuel Gorton in Sparks's “American Biography” series (1848)
- Cosas de España, or Going to Madrid via Barcelona (New York, 1848)
- Life of Schamyl, the Circassian Chief (1856)
- Life of Tai-Ping-Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrection (1857)
- From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics (1864)
Notes edit
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References edit
- "John Milton Mackie (1813 - 1894)". genealogytoday.com. Retrieved 21 February 2012. This work in turn cites Andover Theological Seminary 1894-95 Necrology, pg. 146.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
External links edit
- Works by John Milton Mackie at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Milton Mackie at Internet Archive
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