George Barrell Emerson
George Barrell Emerson (born September 12, 1797 in Kennebunk , Maine , † March 14, 1881 in Newton , Massachusetts ) was an American botanist and school principal. He is considered a thought leader in women's education and a scientific education.
Emerson was the son of a farmer and doctor. He graduated from Harvard College in 1817 and then worked at a school in Lancaster , Massachusetts . In 1819 he took a position as a lecturer at Harvard, in 1821 he ran a school for boys in Boston , Massachusetts. In 1823, Emerson founded a private school for girls in Boston, which he ran until his retirement in 1855. In 1830 he was one of the founders of the American Institute of Instruction . Emerson was curator from 1830 to 1837 and from 1837 to 1843 President of the Boston Society of Natural History and was appointed - together with Chester Dewey - by Governor Edward Everett in 1837 as head of the Zoological and Botanical Survey of Massachusetts . Emerson was offered a professorship in natural history at Harvard. Although he refused, he supported Asa Gray's appointment to this professorship in 1843 . He subsequently enjoyed a long friendship with Gray.
George B. Emerson wrote the second volume of School and Schoolmaster (1842), the first volume was written by Bishop Alonzo Potter . Other works include various lectures on education, Report on the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts (1846), Manual of Agriculture (1861) and Reminiscences of an Old Teacher (1878).
Emerson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1827 and to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1875 . In 1859 he received an honorary doctorate (LL.D.) from Harvard University .
George B. Emerson was a 2nd cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a brother-in-law of the merchant James Arnold (1781–1868). Emerson was one of the administrators of Arnold's legacy, from which the Arnold Arboretum in Boston was founded in 1872 . George Emerson was married twice, from his first marriage in 1824 to Olivia Buckminster († 1832) he had four children. In his second marriage he was married to Mary Rotch Fleming, the widowed sister of James Arnold's wife Sarah, from 1834.
Founded in 1852, the private high school Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, DC , is named after George B. Emerson.
literature
- Emerson, George Barrell . In: The American Cyclopædia , 1879
- Emerson, George Barrell . In: Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography , 1888
- Emerson, George Barrell . In: The New International Encyclopædia , 1905
- Emerson, George Barrell . In: The Encyclopedia Americana , 1920
- Ida Hay: George Barrell Emerson and the Establishment of the Arnold Arboretum , 1994 (PDF, 747 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emerson, George Barrell (1797-1881), educator and environmentalist. In: American National Biography. Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
- ^ The Boston Society of Natural History, 1830-1930 , p. 12
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter E. (PDF; 477 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Brief Biographies of Jackson Era Characters (E). Retrieved December 16, 2018 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Emerson, George Barrell |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Emerson, George B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kennebunk , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1881 |
| Place of death | Newton , Massachusetts |