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See also:TICKNOR, See also:GEORGE (1791—1871) , See also:American educator and author, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the See also:rat of See also:August 1791. He received his See also:early See also:education from his See also:father, See also:Elisha Ticknor (1757—1821), who had been See also:principal of the See also:Franklin public school and was a founder of the Massachusetts Mutual See also:Fire See also:Insurance See also:Company, of the See also:system of See also:free See also:primary See also:schools in Boston, and of the first New See also:England savings See also:bank. In 18os the son entered the junior class at See also:Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1807. During the next three years he studied Latin and See also:Greek with Rev. Dr See also:John See also:Sylvester See also:Gardiner, See also:rector of Trinity, Boston, and a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Dr See also:Samuel See also:Parr. In 1810 Ticknor began the study of See also:law, and he was admitted to the See also:bar in 1813. He opened an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in Boston, but practised for only one See also:year. He went to See also:Europe in 1815 and for nearly two years studed at the university of See also:Gottingen. In 1817 he became See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith See also:professor of See also:French and See also:Spanish See also:languages and literatures (a See also:chair founded in 1816), and professor of belles-lettres at Harvard, and began his See also:work of teaching in 1819 after travel and study in See also:France, See also:Spain and See also:Portugal. During his professorship Ticknor, advocated the creation of departments, the grouping of students in divisions according to proficiency, and the See also:establishment of the elective system, and reorganized his own See also:department. In 1835 he resigned his chair, in ;which he was succeeded in 1836 by Professor H. W. See also:Longfellow; and he was again in Europe in 1835—1838. After his return he devoted himself to the See also:chief work of his See also:life, the See also:history and See also:criticism of Spanish literature, in many respects a new subject at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time even in Europe, there being no adequate treatment of the literature as a whole in Spanish, and both See also:Bouterwek and Sismoridi having worked with scanty or second-See also:hand resources. Ticknor See also:developed in his See also:college lectures the See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme of his more permanent work, which he published es the History of Spanish Literature (New See also:York and See also:London, 3 vols., 1849). The See also:book is not merely a See also:story of Spanish letters, but, more broadly, of Spanish See also:civilization and See also:manners. The History is exhaustive and exact in scholarship, and See also:direct and unpretentious in See also:style. It gives many illustrative passages from representative See also:works, and copious See also:bibliographical references.
It was soon translated into Spanish (1851—1857) by de Gayangos and de Vedia; French (1864—1872), a poor version by Magnabal; and See also:German (1852—1867), by N. H. See also:Julius and See also:Ferdinand See also:Wolf. The second American edition appeared in 1854; the third corrected and enlarged, in 1863; the See also:fourth, containing the author's last revision, in 1872, under the supervision of George S. See also:Hillard; and the See also:sixth in 1888. Ticknor had succeeded his father as a member of the Primary School See also:Board in 1822, and held this position until 1825; he was a trustee of the Boston Atheneum in 1823—1832, and was See also:vice-See also:president in 1833; and he was a director (1827—1835) and vice-president (1841—1862) of the Massachusetts See also:Hospital Life Insurance Company, and a trustee of the Massachusetts See also:General Hospital (1826—183o) and of the Boston Provident Institution for Savings (1833—185o), the bank that his father had helped to found. He was especially active in the establishment of the Boston Public Library (1852), and served in 1852—1866 on its board of trustees, of which he was president in 1865. In its behalf he spent fifteen months abroad in 1856—1857, at his own expense, and to it he gave at various times See also:money and books; a See also:special feature of his See also:plan was a free circulating department. He See also:left to the library his own collection, which was particularly strong in Spanish and Portuguese literatures. He died in Boston on the 26th of See also:January 1871.
Ticknor's See also:minor works include, besides occasional reviews and papers, See also:Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the History and Criticism of Spanish Literature (1823) ; Outline of the Principal Events in the Life of General See also:Lafayette (1825) ; Remarks on Changes Lately Proposed or Adopted in Harvard University (1825) ; The Remains of Nathan See also:Appleton Haven, with a Memoir of his Life (1827) ; Remarks on the Life and Writings of See also:Daniel See also:Webster (1831); Lecture on the Best Methods of Teaching the Living Languages, delivered, in 1832, before the American See also:Institute of Education; and the Life of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Hickling See also:Prescott (1864).
See Life, Letters and See also:Journals of George Ticknor (2 vols., 1876), by George S. Hillard and Mrs See also:Anna (See also:Eliot) Ticknor and See also:Miss Anna Eliot Ticknor. This book was edited, with a See also:critical introduction, in 1909, by Ferris Greenslet.
End of Article: TICKNOR, GEORGE (1791—1871)
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