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Henry David (historian)
Henry David may refer to: * Henry David Abraham (born 1942), American physician * Henry David Aiken (1912–1982), American philosopher * Henry David Hurst (1916–2003), American classicist and historian * Henry David Inglis (1795–1835), Scottish travel writer * Henry David Leslie Henry David Leslie (18 June 1822 – 5 February 1896) was an English composer and conductor. Leslie was a leader in supporting amateur choral musicians in Britain, founding prize-winning amateur choral societies. He was also a supporter of mus ... (1822–1896), English composer and conductor * Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American essayist, poet, and philosopher See also: * Henry Davids {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry David Abraham
Henry David Abraham (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 25, 1942) is an American physician. He was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Education Abraham completed his undergraduate studies in 1963 at Muhlenberg College in Allentown with honors such as Omicron Delta Kappa, Pennsylvania, where he was valedictorian. He received his medical degree in 1967 from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. After completing postgraduate training in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1968, he completed a residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1971-1974. Career In 1982 Abraham served as consultant to the Institute of Medicine's report ''Marijuana and Health,'' as well as to the ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III-R).'' His research led to the recognition of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry David Aiken
Henry David Aiken (1912–1982) was an American professor of philosophy. Life and career Born July 3, 1912, Henry David Aiken was raised in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from Reed College in the same city in 1934, he continued onto Stanford University and Harvard University, where he received his master's (1937) and Ph.D. (1943), respectively, in philosophy. In the mid-1940s, he taught philosophy at Columbia University and the University of Washington briefly before settling with Harvard for close to two decades (1946–1965). He continued to Brandeis University, where he stayed between 1965 and his retirement in 1980. Aiken retired as the Charles Goldman Professor of Philosophy and History of Ideas. His classes included the existentialism, modern ethics, and philosophy of history. Aiken wrote fifteen books, including ''The Age of Ideology'' and ''Reason and Conduct''. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1960. Personal life Aiken was married and had two sons, thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry David Hurst
Henry David Hurst (July 7, 1916 – June 6, 2003), known also as Dom David Hurst OSB and to his colleagues and students as Father David, was a classicist and historian best recognized for his scholarship on Bede. He spent the greater part of his career as a teacher of Greek and Latin at the Portsmouth Abbey School, a prep school in Rhode Island with an attached monastery. Hurst was born in Bardstown, Kentucky. He attended Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., obtaining a Master of Arts degree there in 1943. Hurst took vows as a Benedictine monk of Portsmouth Priory on June 30, 1942, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 15, 1946. In 1958 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ... to study the works of Bede in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry David Inglis
Henry David Inglis, pseudonym Derwent Conway (1795–1835) was a Scottish travel writer and journalist. Life The only son of a Scottish advocate, Inglis was born in Edinburgh, and was educated for a business career. He spent time travelling abroad. For a short time before 1830 he edited a local newspaper at Chesterfield in Derbyshire, but shortly set off on further foreign travel. In 1832 Inglis went to the Channel Islands, and edited a Jersey newspaper, ''The British Critic'', for two years. Finally, in London, he contributed to ''The New Monthly Magazine'' his last literary work, ''Rambles in the Footsteps of Don Quixote'', with illustrations by George Cruikshank. He died of disease of the brain, at his residence in Bayham Terrace, Regent's Park, on Friday, 20 March 1835. Works Under the name of Derwent Conway, Inglis published his first work, ''Tales of the Ardennes'' (1825), which was well received. There followed in quick succession ''Narrative of a Journey through Norway, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry David Leslie
Henry David Leslie (18 June 1822 – 5 February 1896) was an English composer and conductor. Leslie was a leader in supporting amateur choral musicians in Britain, founding prize-winning amateur choral societies. He was also a supporter of musical higher education, helping to found national music schools. Biography Leslie was born in London. His parents were John Leslie, a tailor and enthusiastic amateur viola player, and Mary Taylor Leslie. He had eight brothers and sisters. He attended the Palace School in Enfield Town, Enfield and worked with his father. As a teenager, he studied the cello with Charles Lucas (musician), Charles Lucas and later played that instrument in concerts at the Sacred Harmonic Society for several years.Holmstrom, John, rev. Anne Pimlott Baker."Leslie, Henry David (1822–1896)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 November 2008 Early career Leslie began to compose music, and in 1840 he published h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading Transcendentalism, transcendentalist, he is best known for his book ''Walden'', a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his nature writing, writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary language, literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical Asceticism, austerity, and attent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
