History of Remsen, (Oneida County) New York United States of America

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Edward Payson Evans, educator, was born in Remsen, N.Y., Dec. 8, 1833; son of the Rev. Evan and Mary Ann (Williams) Evans, who came from Wales to the United States immediately after their marriage. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1854, taught in Hernando, Miss., in 1855, and held a professorship in Carroll college, Waukesha, Wis., 1856-57. He studied in Europe, 1857-60; was instructor in modern languages at the University of Michigan, 1862-63, and professor of modern languages and literature there, 1863-70, resigning the latter year to revist Europe. He became connected with the Allgemeine Zeitung, Munich, Bavaria, in 1884; with Die Nation, Berlin, in 1890, and later with Bl?tter f?r literarische Unterhaltung, Leipzig, and Literature-Central blatt f?r Deutschland; and contributed regularly to all these journals and to The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly and The Popular Science Monthly. He wrote articles on Lessing, Jean Paul Richter and Schiller for "Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature." He became known as a writer of review and magazine articles and an authority on Sanskrit and other oriental languages. Among the more important of his publications are: Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte (1869); a Progressive German Reader (1870); translations of Stahr's Life and Works of Lessing (2 vols., 1866); and Coquerel's First Historical Transformations of Christianity (1867) ;Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture (1896); Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1898); Beitr?ge zur amerikanischen Litteratur-und Kultdturgeschichte (1898); The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1899).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Remsen, (Oneida County) New York

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