| Show DEATH OF GEORGE BANCROFT GEORGE BA BANCROFT wcRoFT the historian is dead at a m on saturday the instant the venerable old american scholar departed this life he was born in worcester mass october 3rd ard 1800 he was graduated at harvard in 1817 he then went to germany where he studied the languages of germany france italy and arabia he made special studies of the classics of greece and rome and took a course in hebrew and scripture interpretation under eichborn I 1 in a 1820 bancroft received the degree of ph D from the university of got ti aged in 1822 he returned to the united states and became a professor of greek in harvard in 1823 1828 be published a volume of poems he politics of ancient greece in 1874 his oration of 1820 1826 was one which at traded great attention eption att it was on universal suffrage the foundation of the state and the power of the whole people the work by which he is best bed known to the world and nd by which he will be known to posterity Js is his bis history of the united states P the first volume of this great work was published in boston bomon in 1834 the second he oom corn plated three years later in president polk polkas Is cabinet bancroft was secretary of the navy it was he who established the naval academy at annapolis during his he acted also as secretary of war fur for one month it was by his order the first occupation of texas by the united states took place from 1846 to 1849 mr bancroft was minister to england in 1867 he be was I 1 appointed minister to prussia in 1868 to the north german confederation and in 1871 to the german empire he took an active part in european politics during his bis residence in europe as american minister of his works george ripley says mr bancroft is eminently a philosophic historian he brings the wealth of a most varied learning in systems of thought and in the political and moral history of mankind to illustrate 1 I the early experiences of his country he catalogues cataloguer catal events in a 4 manner which shows the possession of idam and not only describes popular movements picturesquely but also analyzed them and reveals their spirit ual signification mr bancroft was president of the american historical association at the opening of the third meeting of this association he delivered an address april 27 1886 this if not his last literary work is one of his last in 1882 mr bancroft in writing to a friend saya says 1 I was trained to look upon life here as a wason season for labor being more than fourscore four score years old I 1 know the time for my release will soon awn come conscious of being near the shore of eternity I 1 await without impatience and without dread the beckoning of the hand which will summon me to met aj though these words were written nine years ago yet the writer lived until last saturday morning the instant when in his year the greatest american historian of his generation passed quietly away |
