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TICKNOR, GEORGE (17911871) , American educator and author, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the rat of August 1791. He received his early education from his father, Elisha Ticknor (17571821), who had been principal of the Franklin public school and was a founder of the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of the system of free primary schools in Boston, and of the first New England savings bank. In 18os the son entered the junior class at Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1807. During the next three years he studied Latin and Greek with Rev. Dr John Sylvester Gardiner, rector of Trinity, Boston, and a pupil of Dr Samuel Parr. In 1810 Ticknor began the study of law, and he was admitted to the bar in 1813. He opened an office in Boston, but practised for only one year. He went to Europe in 1815 and for nearly two years studed at the university of Gottingen. In 1817 he became Smith professor of French and Spanish languages and literatures (a chair founded in 1816), and professor of belles-lettres at Harvard, and began his work of teaching in 1819 after travel and study in France, Spain and Portugal. During his professorship Ticknor, advocated the creation of departments, the grouping of students in divisions according to proficiency, and the establishment of the elective system, and reorganized his own department. In 1835 he resigned his chair, in ;which he was succeeded in 1836 by Professor H. W. Longfellow; and he was again in Europe in 18351838. After his return he devoted himself to the chief
scheme of his more permanent work, which he published es the History of Spanish Literature (New York
It was soon translated into Spanish (18511857) by de Gayangos and de Vedia; French (18641872), a poor version by Magnabal; and German (18521867), by N. H. Julius and Ferdinand Wolf. The second American edition appeared in 1854; the third corrected and enlarged, in 1863; the fourth, containing the author's last revision, in 1872, under the supervision of George S. Hillard; and the sixth
establishment of the Boston Public Library (1852), and served in 18521866 on its board of trustees, of which he was president in 1865. In its behalf he spent fifteen months abroad in 18561857, at his own expense, and to it he gave at various times money and books; a special feature of his plan was a free circulating department. He left to the library his own collection, which was particularly strong in Spanish and Portuguese literatures. He died in Boston on the 26th of January 1871.Ticknor's minor works include, besides occasional reviews and papers, Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the History and Criticism of Spanish Literature (1823) ; Outline of the Principal Events in the Life of General Lafayette (1825) ; Remarks on Changes Lately Proposed or Adopted in Harvard University (1825) ; The Remains of Nathan Appleton Haven, with a Memoir of his Life (1827) ; Remarks on the Life and Writings of Daniel Webster
Prescott
See Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor (2 vols., 1876), by George S. Hillard and Mrs Anna (Eliot) Ticknor and Miss Anna Eliot Ticknor. This book was edited, with a critical introduction, in 1909, by Ferris Greenslet. End of Article: TICKNOR, GEORGE (17911871) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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