Hugh Henry Brackenridge

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Hugh Henry Brackenridge (born 1748 on Kintyre near Campbeltown , Scotland , † June 25, 1816 in Carlisle , Pennsylvania ) was an American poet, lawyer and politician of Scottish origin.

Life

Brackenridge was born on the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland, but came to Pennsylvania as a child in 1753. He studied theology at the College of New Jersey , now Princeton University . Many leading figures of the American independence movement and the early republic studied there, for example Philip Freneau , James Madison and Gunning Bedford, Jr. in Brackenridge's graduating class of 1771 , Brackenridge was especially close friends with Freneau, and together they wrote the epic poem The Rising Glory of America , which Brackenridge gave at the graduation ceremony, and Father Bombo's pilgrimage to Mecca in Arabia , a satire on American manners and customs.

At the American Revolutionary War to Brackenridge involved as a clergyman. After the end of the fighting in 1781 he began a career as a lawyer and politician in Pittsburgh .

His son, Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786–1871), also an author, congressman and hobby historian, provided one of the first descriptions of the historic city of Cahokia .

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In the spirit of the independence movement, Brackenridge wrote two patriotic plays, The battle of Bunkers hill (1776) and The death of General Montgomery (1777), as well as Six political discourses (1778). His main literary work is the four-volume, picaresque novel Modern chivalry , published between 1782 and 1797 . In it, Brackenridge reveals the shortcomings of the new democracy and the ignorance of the common citizen through sharp satire.

literature

  • Daniel Marder: Hugh Henry Brackenridge , Twayne Publishers, New York, 1967

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Henry Marie Brackenridge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  2. ↑ Justin Jennings: Globalizations and the Ancient World , excerpt ( memento of the original from September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Cambridge University Press online @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ebooks.cambridge.org
  3. ↑ See e.g. B. Volume 2: online at Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, lawyer, and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Kintyre at Campbeltown , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1816
Place of death Carlisle , Pennsylvania