Edward Payson Evans
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 From Hinsdale, History of the University of Michigan, p. 237. |
Edward Payson Evans (December 8, 1831 Remsen, New York - March 6, 1917 New York City) was a United States scholar and linguist.
Biography
His father was a Welsh Presbyterian clergyman, who came to the United States in 1842. Evans graduated from the University of Michigan in 1854, and then taught at an academy in Hernando, Mississippi, for one year. He then became a professor at Carroll University (then Carroll College), Waukesha, Wisconsin.
From 1858 to 1862, he traveled abroad, and studied at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Munich. Germany became a sort of second mother country for him.
On his return to the United States, he became professor of modern languages in the University of Michigan. In 1868, he married Elizabeth Edson Gibson (1832-1911), who eventually published a great deal.
Evans resigned his position at Michigan in 1870 and went abroad again, where he gathered materials for a history of German literature, and also made a specialty of oriental languages. He became a fixture at the Royal Library in Munich, and joined the staff of the Allgemeine Zeitung in Munich in 1884.
When World War I broke out in 1914, he returned to the United States, where he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.
Works
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Besides many articles in reviews and magazines, he published Abriss der deutschen Literaturgesehichte (New York, 1869) a Progressive German Reader (1870), and translated Adolf Stahr's Life and Works of Lessing (with an introduction; 2 vols., 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.
Notes
References
- "Evans, Edward P.". The American Cyclopædia. 1879.
- George Harvey Genzmer (1931). "Evans, Edward Payson". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
External link
- "Back Home After 40 Years.; Prof. E.P. Evans Here to Complete His History of German Literature.". The New York Times. December 29, 1911.