Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale (born April 3, 1822 in Boston , Massachusetts , † June 10, 1909 in Roxbury ) was an American writer and preacher of the Unitarians and Congregationalists .
Live and act
Hale was born on April 3, 1822 in Boston to Nathan Hale (1784-1863), owner and editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser , and Sarah Preston Everett. Hale was a great-nephew of Nathan Hale , who was executed for espionage by British forces during the War of Independence.
Hale turned to writing early on. He studied literature at Harvard College and then theology at Harvard Divinity School . Here he met among others the ideas of William Ellery Channing and turned to Unitarianism. In 1842 he was admitted as a Unitarian preacher, and in 1846 he was pastor of the Unitarian church in Worcester, New England . In 1852 he married Emily Baldwin Perkins, niece of the Governor of Connecticut and the US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin . The couple would have nine children together, including the future printmaker Ellen Day Hale and the writer and impressionist painter Philip Leslie Hale . In 1856, Hale left the Unitarian Church and was pastor of the South Congregational Church in Boston; an office that he held until 1899. In 1847, Hale was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society .
In addition to his pastoral work, Hale was best known as a writer. From 1859 he wrote a number of short stories and became an important exponent of American realism . His best-known work was the book The Man Without a Country , written in 1863 in support of the Northern States in the American Civil War . Hale spoke out publicly against slavery and cared for Irish immigrants coming into the country. In 1865 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . His moralistic novel Ten Times One Is Ten was published in 1871 . In the story Hands Off , published in 1881 , a narrator goes through time in order to be able to change events over time or alternatively to create timelines. Hence, Hale is also seen as the pioneer of emerging science fiction and time travel stories.
In 1903 he became chaplain of the US Senate. In 1909 Hale died in Roxbury, where he had lived since 1869. He was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery . In Boston Public Garden today, a statue of him.
literature
- Jean Holloway: Edward Everett Hale - A Biography , 1956, ISBN 9780292777354
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter H. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 12, 2019 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hale, Edward Everett |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1909 |
| Place of death | Roxbury |