The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . wed a remarkable ten-dency toward study and anxiety to learn, andobtaiued the praises not only of his teachers but ofnoted scholars, who took enough interest in him tokeep informed
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . wed a remarkable ten-dency toward study and anxiety to learn, andobtaiued the praises not only of his teachers but ofnoted scholars, who took enough interest in him tokeep informed as to his standing and 1813 he entered Harvard where he sustainedthe reputation he had previously gained, graduat-ing in 1817 with honors. In college he devotedhimself more particularly to metaphysics and moralphilosophy, and to the study of the Greek lan- fuage and literature. It is believed that he wasestined by his parents for the pulpit; but, being soyoung when he left college, it was decided that heshould be sent to Europe to complete his accordingly went to Gottingen, where for twoyears he studied German, Frenchand Italian literature, and also Ara-bic and Hebrew; having for histeachers in these departments sucheminent scholars as Bunsen andEichhorn. He studied history withHeeren, and natural history with^ Blumenbach. It is probable thatj the one, among all his teachers, who. 9 t,OCm^iM~-~^ made the deepest impression uponhis mind, was Heeren, who direct-ed his ideas toward history as a vo-cation. Subsequently he translatedthe works of that venerable his-torian. Meanwhile, young Ban-croft devoted much of his timeand thought to the study of themetaphysical questions which, atthat period especially, were agitat-ing the entire world. Moreover, hepaid great attention to ancient andmodern art and literature, and made poetical trans-lations from Goethe, Schiller and other poets. Soearly as 1819 Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell, afterwardthe noted superintende
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