Edward Payson Evans
Edward Payson Evans (1831 - 1917) was a historian and linguist. He was born in Reinsen, New York, 8 December 1831. His father was a Welsh Presbyterian clergyman. He moved to Michigan in 1850, graduating from the University of Michigan in 1854. He was a professor at Carroll University (then Carroll College), Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1856-7.
After travelling and studying abroad from 1857 to 1860, he became professor of modern languages in Michigan University 1861, but resigned in 1870 and went abroad, where he engaged in literary work.
Evans made a specialty of oriental languages. Besides many articles in reviews and magazines, he published Abriss der deutschen Literaturgesehichte (New York, 1869) a Progressive German Reader (1870), and translated Stahr's " Life and Works of Lessing," with an introduction in two volumes(Boston, 1866), and Coquerel's First Historical Transformations of Christianity in 1867. In 1887 he published Animal Symbolism in Art and Literature and Animal symbolism in ecclesiastical architecture, and a History of German Literature in five volumes, in 1898 Evolutional ethics and animal psychology and in 1906 Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals.
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