Edward Waldo Emerson

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Edward Waldo Emerson (born July 10, 1844 in Concord , Massachusetts , USA ; † January 27, 1930 ) was an American doctor , author and lecturer .

Life

Emerson was the son of the philosopher and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson . He studied at Harvard University , which he finished with his graduation in 1866 before going to Harvard Medical School . After graduating there, he practiced in his hometown until 1882. In 1882 he gave up the practice after having made an inheritance. In the years 1885 to 1906 he taught anatomical drawing at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , the School of the Museum of Fine Arts . In 1917 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

In his hometown, Emerson served as a school overseer for the town's schools and served on the town council on the governing bodies of health, cemetery and library services. He was also a founding member of the Concord Antiquarian Society , the forerunner of the Concord Museum , and a member of the Social Circle .

Emerson had been married since 1874. The couple had seven children, only one of whom the couple survived.

Publications

  • Emerson in Concord. 1888.
  • with Moorfield Storey: The life of ER Hoar. 1911.
  • Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend. 1917.
    • New edition: Dover Publications, Mineola, New York State 1999, ISBN 0-486408965 .
  • Early Years of the Saturday Club, 1855-1870. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1918.
  • Later Years of the Saturday Club, 1870-1920. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1927.
as editor
  • Correspondence of John Sterling and Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1897.
  • annotated: Centenary Edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1903.
  • Life and Letters of General Charles Russell Lowell. Houghton Muffin, Boston 1907. New edition: University of South Carolina Press, Columbia (South Carolina), USA 2005.
  • with Waldo Emerson Forbes: Emerson's Journals. 1909.
  • Nature and Thought by Ralph Waaldo Emerson. Specially Selected and Arranged for the Tauchnitz Edition by Edward Waldo Emerson . Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1915.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Emerson, Edward Waldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American doctor, author, and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Concord , Massachusetts , USA
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1930
Place of death Concord , Massachusetts , USA