Hermann Hagedorn (biographer)

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Hermann Hagedorn (born July 18, 1882 in Staten Island , New York , † July 27, 1964 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American author and biographer.

Hermann Hagedorn studied at Harvard University , Berlin University and Columbia University . From 1909 to 1911 he taught English at Harvard University.

Hagedorn is best known as a friend and biographer of Theodore Roosevelt and John Gillespie Magee . After Roosevelt's death in 1919, he helped found the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), of which he was secretary and chairman from 1919 to 1957.

In 1920 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works

  • The Silver Blade . 1907.
  • The Woman of Corinth . 1908.
  • A Troop of the Guard, and other Poems . 1909.
  • Poems and Ballads . 1912.
  • Faces in the Dawn . 1914.
  • You are the Hope of the World . 1917, 1920.
  • Theodore Roosevelt . 1919, 1921.
  • That Human Being, Leonard Wood . 1920.
  • Roosevelt in the Badlands . 1921.
  • Sunward I've climbed. The Story of John Magee, Poet and Soldier. 1922-1941 . 1943.
  • Prophet in the Wilderness: The Story of Albert Schweitzer . 1947.
    German: Philanthropist in the jungle. The life of Albert Schweitzer . Meiner, Hamburg 1957.
  • The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt . Gardners Books 2007, ISBN 0548013551 .
  • Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt . ISBN 076616179X .
  • Roosevelt in the Bad Land . ISBN 076617073X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members: Hermann Hagedorn. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hagedorn, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Staten Island , New York
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1964
Place of death Santa Barbara , California