John Rudolph Sutermeister
John Rudolph Sutermeister (born March 16, 1803 in Curaçao , † January 16, 1826 in New York ) was an American poet lawyer .
Life
As a child, he emigrated to the US state of New York , where he attended boarding school in Cooperstown (New York) and studied law in Rhinebeck . In 1824 he began to work as a lawyer in Syracuse, New York , but soon preferred a position as editor of the Syracuse Gazette . In 1825 he moved to New York City for a better job, but soon died of smallpox .
Publications
Sutermeister published little poems in newspapers, which found their way into later anthologies . These include:
- The Careless Lover's Adieu (1824)
- an ode to Carl von Linné (1824, for an occasion of the Paris Linnaeus Society in New York),
- the poems To a Humming Bird and A Contrasted Picture (1824; republished by John Keese in 1840),
- The Garden (1825),
- Lament ( republished in The Knickerbocker in 1844 ), and
- Faded Hours ( republished by Rufus Wilmot Griswold in 1852).
Web links
Wikisource: John Rudolph Sutermeister - Sources and full texts
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samuel Kettell : "John Rudolph Sutermeister". In: Samuel Kettell: Specimens of American poetry: with critical and biographical notices, in three volumes. Boston: SG Goodrich, 1829, pp. 71-75.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sutermeister, John Rudolph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Curacao |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 1826 |
| Place of death | new York |