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GEORGE PERKINS MARSH (1801-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 768 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:PERKINS See also:MARSH (1801-1882)  , See also:American diplomatist and philologist, was See also:born at See also:Woodstock, See also:Vermont, on the 15th of See also:March 18or . He graduated at See also:Dartmouth See also:College in 182o, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1825, and practised See also:law at See also:Burlington, Vermont, devoting himself also with ardour to philological studies . In 1835 he was a member of the Supreme Executive See also:Council of Vermont, and from 1843 to 1849 a Whig representative in See also:Congress . In 1849 he was appointed See also:United States See also:minister See also:resident in See also:Turkey, and in 1852–1853 discharged a See also:mission to See also:Greece in connexion with the imprisonment by the authorities of that See also:country of an American missionary, Dr See also:Jonas See also:King (1792–1869) . He returned to Vermont in 1854, and in 1857 was a member of the See also:state railway See also:commission . In 1861 he became the first United States minister to the See also:kingdom of See also:Italy, and died in that See also:office at See also:Vallombrosa on the 23rd of See also:July 1882 . He was buried in a See also:Protestant See also:cemetery in See also:Rome . See also:Marsh was an able linguist, See also:writing and speaking with ease the Scandinavian and See also:half a dozen other See also:European See also:languages, a remarkable philologist for his See also:day, and a See also:scholar of See also:great breadth, knowing much of military See also:science, See also:engraving and physics, as well as of Icelandic, which was his specialty . He wrote many articles for See also:Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, and contributed many reviews and letters to the Nation . His See also:chief published See also:works are: A Compendious See also:Grammar of the Old See also:Northern or Icelandic See also:Language (1838), compiled and translated from the grammars of See also:Rask; The See also:Camel, his Organization, Habits, and Uses, with Reference to his Introduction into the United States (1856); Lectures on the See also:English Language (186o) ; The Origin and See also:History of the English Language (1862; revised ed., 1885); and See also:Man and Nature (1865) . The last-named See also:work was translated into See also:Italian in 1872, and, largely rewritten, was issued in 1874 under the See also:title The See also:Earth as Modified by Human See also:Action; a revised edition was published in 1885 . He also published a work on Mediaeval and See also:Modern See also:Saints and Miracles (1876) .

His valuable library was presented in 1883 by See also:

Frederick Billings to the university of Vermont . His second wife, See also:CAROLINE (See also:CRANE) MARSH (1816-1901), whom he married in 1839, published See also:Wolfe of the Knoll and other Poems (186o), and the See also:Life and Letters of See also:George See also:Perkins Marsh (New See also:York, 1888) . This last work was See also:left incomplete, the second See also:volume never having been published . She also translated from the See also:German of Johann C . Biernatzki (1795–1840), The Hallig; or the Sheepfold in the See also:Waters (r856) .

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