George Herbert Palmer

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George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933) was an American scholar and author, born in Boston. He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and in 1864 he graduated at Harvard, to which he returned, after study at Tübingen, Germany, and at Andover Theological Seminary, to be tutor in Greek. He became Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity at Harvard (1889-1913). In 1887, he married, as his second wife, Alice Freeman Palmer. Professor Palmer received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, Union, Dartmouth, Western Reserve, and Harvard. His publications include:

• The New Education (1887)
• The Glory of the Imperfect (1898)
• Self-Cultivation in English (1897)
• The Field of Ethics (1901)
• The Nature of Goodness (1904)
• The Life and Works of George Herbert (three volumes, 1905)
• The Teacher (1908)
• The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer (1908)
• Intimations of Immortality in the Sonnets of Shakespeare (1912)
• Trades and Professions (1914)

[edit] External links

• Works by George Herbert Palmer at Project Gutenberg

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.