John Fiske (philosopher)

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John Fiske, 1878

John Fiske (born March 30, 1842 in Hartford (Connecticut) as Edmund Fiske Green, † July 4, 1901 ) was an American philosopher and historian .

Life

Fiske in old age

He was the only child of Edmund Brewster Green and Mary Fiske Bound. His father worked as a newspaper editor in Hartford, New York City and Panama , where he died in 1852. When his widowed mother married a second time in 1855, Edmund Fiske Green changed his name to that of his maternal great-grandfather: John Fiske.

After a childhood in Middletown, Fiske enrolled at Harvard University , graduating from college in 1863, and graduating from Harvard Law School in 1865 . Although he was admitted to the Suffolk court in 1864, he never practiced as a lawyer. Instead, he pursued a writing career that began in 1861 with an article on “Mr. Buckle's Fallacies ”published by the National Quarterly Review . After that, Fiske wrote frequently for American and British magazines.

From 1869 to 1871 he taught philosophy at Harvard, 1870 also history, and from 1872 worked as a librarian. When he left this position in 1879, he was an elected member of the board of directors and was re-elected in 1885 after the end of his six-year term. In 1878 Fiske was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1881 he taught American history at Washington University in St. Louis (Missouri) , where he received a professorship in 1884. However, Fiske kept his residence in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . In 1879 he taught American history at University College London and in 1880 at the Royal Institution .

Works

General

  • Myths and Myth Makers (1872) ( Online publication )
  • Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874)
  • The Unseen World (1876)
  • Darwinism and Other Essays (1879; revised and enlarged, 1885)
  • Excursions of an Evolutionist (1883)
  • The Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of his Origin (1884)
  • The Idea of ​​God as Affected by modern Knowledge (1885)
  • Origin of Evil (1899)
  • A Century of Science and Other Essays (1899)
  • Through Nature to God (1899)
  • The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War (1900)
  • Life Everlasting (the Ingersoll Lecture , 1901)

history

  • American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History (1885)
  • The Critical Period of American History, 1783-89 (1888)
  • The Beginnings of New England (1889)
  • The War of Independence , a book for young people (1889)
  • Civil Government of the United States (1890)
  • The American Revolution (two volumes, 1891)
  • The Discovery of America (two volumes, 1892)
  • A United States History for Schools (1895)
  • Old Virginia and her Neighbors (two vols., 1897)
  • Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America (two vols., 1899)
  • Essays, Literary and Historical (1902)
  • New France and New England (1902)
  • A collection of his historical works appeared in 1912 as Historical Works (Popular Edition). It is in eleven volumes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fiske, John (author) . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . 1900.

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personal data
SURNAME Fiske, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Green, Edmund Fiske (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford, Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1901