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MARSH, GEORGE PERKINS (1801-1882)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 768 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MARSH, GEORGE PERKINS (1801-1882) , American diplomatist and philologist, was born at Woodstock,
Vermont
 , on the 15th of March 18or. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 182o, was admitted to the bar in 1825, and practised law at Burlington,
Vermont
 , devoting himself also with ardour to philological studies. In 1835 he was a member of the Supreme Executive Council of Vermont, and from 1843 to 1849 a Whig representative in Congress. In 1849 he was appointed United States minister
resident
  in Turkey, and in 18521853 discharged a mission to Greece in connexion with the imprisonment by the authorities of that country of an American missionary, Dr Jonas King (17921869). He returned to Vermont in 1854, and in 1857 was a member of the state railway commission. In 1861 he became the first United States minister to the kingdom of Italy, and died in that office at Vallombrosa on the 23rd of July 1882. He was buried in a
Protestant
  cemetery in Rome. Marsh was an able linguist, writing and speaking with ease the Scandinavian and half a dozen other European languages, a remarkable philologist for his day, and a scholar of great breadth, knowing much of military science, engraving and physics, as well as of Icelandic, which was his specialty. He wrote many articles for Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, and contributed many reviews and letters to the Nation. His
chief
  published works are: A Compendious Grammar of the Old Northern or Icelandic Language (1838), compiled and translated from the grammars of Rask; The Camel, his Organization, Habits, and Uses, with Reference to his Introduction into the United States (1856); Lectures on the English Language (186o) ; The Origin and History of the English Language (1862; revised ed., 1885); and Man and Nature (1865). The last-named
work
  was translated into Italian in 1872, and, largely rewritten, was issued in 1874 under the title The Earth as Modified by Human Action; a revised edition was published in 1885. He also published a
work
  on Mediaeval and Modern Saints and Miracles (1876). His valuable library was presented in 1883 by Frederick Billings to the university of Vermont. His second wife, CAROLINE (CRANE) MARSH (1816-1901), whom he married in 1839, published Wolfe of the Knoll and other Poems (186o), and the Life and Letters of George Perkins Marsh (New
York
 , 1888). This last work was left incomplete, the second volume never having been published. She also translated from the German of Johann C. Biernatzki (17951840), The Hallig; or the Sheepfold in the Waters (r856).


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