Jeremiah Curtin

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Jeremiah Curtin (September 6, 1835 - December 14, 1906, Vermont) was an American linguist and folklorist.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (some sources say Detroit, Michigan), he graduated from Harvard College in 1863. In 1864, he went to Russia. There he worked as both a translator and for the U. S. legation. He left Russia in 1877, stayed a year in London, and returned to the United States, where he worked for the Bureau of Ethnology.

Besides his collections of fairy tales and folklore and writings about his travels, he translated Quo Vadis.

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• Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland, 1890
• Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World 1895
• Creation Myths of Primitive America, 1898
• A Journey in Southern Siberia, 1909
• Seneca Indian Myths, 1922

[edit] See also

• Jeremiah Curtin House

[edit] External links

• Works by Jeremiah Curtin at Project Gutenberg:
  • Quo Vadis
• Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland
• Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World
• Creation Myths of Primitive America
• A Journey in Southern Siberia
• Seneca Indian Myths
• His memoirs