About George Henry Calvert
Lived 1803 – 1889 (aged 86). George Henry Calvert was an American writer, biographer and poet.
Biography Calvert was born January 2, 1803, in Prince George County, Maryland. His mother, Rosalie Eugenia Stier (1778–1821), was the daughter of a wealthy Belgian aristocrat, Baron Henri Joseph Stier (1743–1821) and his wife Marie Louise Peeters. His father, George Calvert (1768–1838), was the son of Benedict Swingate Calvert – a natural son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore – and his wife Elizabeth Calvert (1731–1788).
George Calvert was the Calverts' eldest son. He grew up in Maryland, graduated from Harvard College in 1823, and studied in Germany where in March 1825 he met the poet Goethe.
Academia and politics
In 1830, Calvert was appointed the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the newly established College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Baltimore.
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American dramatist, poet, and biographer (1803-1889)
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George Henry Calvert was born on 2 January 1803 in Baltimore.
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George Henry Calvert died on 24 May 1889 in Newport.
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George Henry Calvert was a writer, biographer and poet.
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George Henry Calvert was American.
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