Jeremiah Curtin

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Curtin (left) with Sienkiewicz, author of Quo Vadis
Curtin (left) with Sienkiewicz, author of Quo Vadis

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

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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.

In addition to publishing collections of fairy tales and folklore and writings about his travels, Curtin translated a number of volumes by Henryk Sienkiewicz, including Quo Vadis, and Bolesław Prus' only historical novel, Pharaoh (Curtin's English translation: 1902).

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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.

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