John Milton Mackie

John Milton Mackie (19 December 1813, in Wareham, Massachusetts – 27 July 1894, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts) was a United States writer who specialized in topics from German history and literature.

Biography

He graduated from Brown University in 1832, and studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1833-1834. On his return to the United States, he was tutor at Brown 1835-1838. He contributed articles on German topics to the North American Review, American Whig Review, and Christian.

Books

• Life of Godfrey William von Leibnitz, with Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (Boston, 1845) at archive.org
• Life of Samuel Gorton in Sparks's “American Biography” series (1848)
• Cosas de España, or Going to Madrid via Barcelona (New York, 1848)
• Life of Schamyl, the Circassian Chief (1856)
• Life of Tai-Ping-Wang, Chief of the Chinese Insurrection (1857)
• From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics (1864)

References

• "John Milton Mackie (1813 - 1894)". genealogytoday.com. Retrieved 21 February 2012. This work in turn cites Andover Theological Seminary 1894-95 Necrology, pg. 146.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Mackie, John Milton" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

External links

• Works by John Milton Mackie at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about John Milton Mackie at Internet Archive