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American educator, author, and mystic.
Alcott was an American philosopher of the New England Transcendentalist group, teacher, reformer, and father of writer Louisa May Alcott.
American transcendentalist and author.
Alcott was an American philosopher of the New England Transcendentalist group, teacher, reformer, and father of the writer Louisa May Alcott.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) was an American teacher, writer and philosopher who left a legacy of forward-thinking social ideas. His status as a well-publicized figure from the 1830s to the 1880s stemmed partly from his founding of two short-lived projects, an unconventional school and a utopian community known as Fruitlands, as well as from his association with the philosophy of Transcendentalism, and from the celebrity of his daughter, the author Louisa May Alcott.
American educator, philosopher, mystic, lecturer, essayist, poet, Transcendentalist, idealist, and reformer. Resident of Concord, Mass.; neighbor of Emerson, friend of Thoreau. Born at Spindle Hill near Walcott, Connecticut, 1799; died in Boston, 1888. With little formal education, he made his living as a young man as a peddler in New York and Pennsylvania. He founded and taught at the Temple School in Boston, 1834-1838; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody served as his assistant. In 1840, the disapproval of parents alarmed by his educational methods having forced the closing of the school, he moved his family to Concord. He travelled in 1842 to England, where he found support for his educational theories. A founder in 1843 of the Fruitlands community in Harvard, Massachusetts, where he and his family lived until Jan. 1844. Superintendent of Schools in Concord 1859-1865. In 1879, he founded the Concord School of Philosophy, which continued until 1888, largely under the direction of William Torrey Harris (particularly after Alcott's stroke in 1882). Through Harris, who later became United States Commissioner of Education, Alcott's educational theories had a broad influence. Both in teaching children and in presenting his ideas to groups of adults, Alcott's technique was the Socratic conversational method. Married Abigail May in 1830. Father of four daughters, including author Louisa May Alcott, whose writing gave the family financial security. A.B. Alcott's Emerson was printed in 1865, Tablets in 1868, Concord Days in 1872, Table-Talk in 1877, New Connecticut in 1881, Sonnets and Canzonets in 1882. Odell Shepard's edition of journal selections was published in 1938.
American educator and philosopher.
American Transcendentalist and reformer; father of Louisa May Alcott.
Transcendentalist, educator, and author.
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