Joel Barlow
Joel Barlow (born March 24, 1754 in Redding , Colony of Connecticut , † October 22, 1812 in Żarnowiec near Krakow , Poland ) was an American poet , statesman and political writer .
Life
Barlow studied law at Dartmouth College and later at Yale University , where he made himself known through several poems. In the War of Independence , after six weeks of preparation, he served as a field preacher until 1783 . Then he lived as a lawyer and editor of a newspaper in Hartford , where he soon belonged to the Hartford Wits . He worked on the translation of the Psalms by Isaac Watts for church use and debuted in 1787 with the poem The Vision of Columbus , which, filled with glowing patriotism, found enthusiastic reception.
As an agent for the Scioto Land Company , he went to Europe in 1788 to offer land, a company that contributed in no small part to the rapid establishment of the state of Ohio . During his stay in London he published the Advice to the Privileged Orders (Volume 1) in 1791 and the next year the poem Conspiracy of Kings, a Poem Addressed to the Inhabitants of Europe from another Quarter of the Globe , to which he was bound by the Bund the continental powers against France.
At the same time he sent a letter to the National Convention in Paris , in which he asked them to abolish kingship. In autumn 1792, sent to Paris by the London Society for Constitutional Information in London, he found a brilliant reception here and in 1793 became a French honorary citizen and commissioner for the newly acquired Savoy .
There he wrote the popular comic heroic poem Hasty Pudding . In 1795 he was appointed the American plenipotentiary for Algiers , where he signed treaties with the barbaric states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli on behalf of George Washington and brought about the release of the Americans captured there. In 1797 he was back in Paris.
Having become rich through commercial speculation, he returned to America in 1805 and settled near Washington in order to dedicate himself entirely to science in a rural retreat. In 1811 President James Madison appointed him envoy to Paris; As such, he died, called by Napoléon Bonaparte to a conference in Vilnius , on October 22nd, 1812 in Żarnowiec near Cracow. Since 1809 he was an elected member of the American Philosophical Society .
Works (selection)
- Letters to the Citizens of the United States of America on the System of Policy (1800)
- The Columbiad (Philadelphia 1808; an extension of the Vision of Columbus )
literature
- Barlow, Joel . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 406 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Joel Barlow. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 20, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barlow, Joel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet, statesman, and political writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Redding , Connecticut |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1812 |
| Place of death | Żarnowiec , Poland |