Edward Payson Evans
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Edward Payson Evans was a historian and linguist. He was born in Reinsen, New York, 8 December 1831. His father was a Welsh Presbyterian clergyman. He moved to Michigan
in 1850, graduating from the University of Michigan
in 1854. He was a professor at Carroll University (then Carroll College), Waukesha, Wisconsin
, in 1856-7.
After travelling and studying abroad from 1857 to 1860, he became professor of modern languages in Michigan University 1861, but resigned in 1870 and went abroad, where he engaged in literary work.
Evans made a specialty of oriental languages. Besides many articles in reviews and magazines, he published Abriss der deutschen Literaturgesehichte (New York, 1869) a Progressive German Reader (1870), and translated Stahr
's " Life and Works of Lessing
," with an introduction in two volumes(Boston, 1866), and Coquerel's First Historical Transformations of Christianity in 1867. In 1887 he published Animal Symbolism in Art and Literature and Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture, and a History of German Literature in five volumes, in 1898 Evolutional ethics and animal psychology and in 1906 Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals.
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
in 1850, graduating from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
in 1854. He was a professor at Carroll University (then Carroll College), Waukesha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
, in 1856-7.
After travelling and studying abroad from 1857 to 1860, he became professor of modern languages in Michigan University 1861, but resigned in 1870 and went abroad, where he engaged in literary work.
Evans made a specialty of oriental languages. Besides many articles in reviews and magazines, he published Abriss der deutschen Literaturgesehichte (New York, 1869) a Progressive German Reader (1870), and translated Stahr
Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr
Adolf Stahr was a German writer and literary historian.- Life :Stahr was the son of the preacher and pastor Johann Adam Stahr . He attended grammar school in Prenzlau...
's " Life and Works of Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...
," with an introduction in two volumes(Boston, 1866), and Coquerel's First Historical Transformations of Christianity in 1867. In 1887 he published Animal Symbolism in Art and Literature and Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture, and a History of German Literature in five volumes, in 1898 Evolutional ethics and animal psychology and in 1906 Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals.