Jared Sparks

Tomb of Jared Sparks in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jared Sparks (born May 10, 1789 in Willington , Connecticut , † March 14, 1866 in Cambridge ) was an American historian and Unitarian pastor .

Life

Sparks was a Unitarian preacher in Boston for a time , edited the quarterly "North American Review" from 1823 to 1830 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1825 . He became professor of history at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1839 and was its president from 1849 to 1852. Since 1845 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He died in Cambridge on March 14, 1866 and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery .

Works (selection)

as an author

• Life of the famous American traveler John Ledyard , Cook's companion ("Life of John Ledyard", 1828). Leipzig 1829.
• Life of Governor Morris . Gray, Boston 1832 (3 volumes).
• Life and correspondence of George Washington ("Life of Washington, with diaries", 1839). Brockhaus, Leipzig 1839.

as editor

• Diplomatic correspondence of the American revolution . Hale, Gray & Bowen, Boston 1829/31 (12 volumes).
• Library of American biography . New York 1834/47 (25 volumes).
• Correspondence on the American revolution . New York 1853 (4 volumes).
• Works of George Washington . New York 1834/38 (12 volumes, with biography).
• Works of Benjamin Franklin . New York 1836/40 (10 volumes).

literature

• Brantz Mayer: Memoir of Jared Sparks . Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore 1867.
• George E. Ellis: Memoir of Jared Sparks . Massachusetts Historical Society, Cambridge, Mass. 1869.

Web links

Commons : Jared Sparks  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Jared Sparks in the catalog of the German National Library