Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878

Author, translator, and traveler.

American journalist.

Traveler, translator, man of letters, born in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Taylor was an American man of letters best known for his many books of travel and his translation of Faust. He was secretary of the American legation at St. Petersburg (1862-1863) and minister to Germany (1878).

American writer.

Bayard Taylor was an American novelist, poet, essayist, translator, nd writer of short stories and travel literature.

Poet, novelist and travel writer born in Kennet Square, Penn. Wrote popular accounts of his journeys. U.S. Minister to Germany, 1878, where he died. Ferdinand Freiligrath was a German poet who had fled Germany fearing persecution for his liberal political beliefs and was living in London.

American author and traveller.

Bayard Taylor, 1825-1878, was an American poet, travel writer, translator, and author. He was also a diplomat, serving in the American Legation to Russia during the Civil War, and in the American Legation to Germany as Envoy briefly before his death in 1878. Born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania he built his own home, Cedarcroft, nearby.

Traveler, translator, writer, man of letters, non-resident professor of German literature at Cornell University.

American author and traveler.

American author.

The Quaker poet and traveller, Bayard Taylor, was a scholar of German literature and the United States minister to Germany.

American poet, critic and travel author.

Poet, author, and travel writer Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. His travel works include such titles as: Eldorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire, a product of his travels to California and Mexico and his dispatches to the New York Tribune as a special correspondent during the summer of 1849; Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark, and Lapland (1857); At Home and Abroad: A Sketch-book of the Life, Scenery, and Men (1859-1862) ; and Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet, and Central Asia (1874). Taylor became a distinguished novelist and poet, and translated Goethe's Faust in the original meters (1870-1871).

Taylor was appointed minister to Germany in 1878, departing the U. S. in April of that year aboard the same ship as Samuel Clemens and his family. His journey was noted in "The Start for Germany; Bayard Taylor Takes off for Berlin. The Holsatia Carries Away the New Minister, Accompanied by Mark Twain and His Family," published in The New York Times (12 April 2008). Taylor died in Berlin the following December at the age of 53.