{{short description|American poet}} {{About||the founder of Maryland|George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore|information about other persons with the name ''George Calvert''|George Calvert (disambiguation){{!}}George Calvert}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = George Henry Calvert | image = George Henry Calvert mayor of Newport.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1803|1|2}} | birth_place = Prince George's County, Maryland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1889|5|24|1803|1|2}} | death_place = | spouse = Elizabeth Steuart | parents = George Calvert<br/>Rosalie Stier Calvert | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | death_cause = | resting_place = Island Cemetery, Newport | order = 2nd | office = Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island | term_start = October 1853<ref name=StacyHouse>{{cite web|last1=Martin|first1=Peter F.|title=Mayors of Newport|url=http://stacyhouse.com/Newport_Issues/Newport_Mayors.htm|website=Stacy House|accessdate=19 May 2015}}</ref> | term_end = June 1854<ref name=StacyHouse /> | predecessor = Robert B. Cranston | successor = William C. Cozzens | party = | alma_mater = Harvard College }}
'''George Henry Calvert''' (January 2, 1803 – May 24, 1889) was an American editor, essayist, dramatist, poet, and biographer.<ref>[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/george-henry-calvert-dlb/ Biographical sketch] from the Dictionary of Literary Biography</ref> He was the Chair of Moral Philosophy at the newly established College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Baltimore, and in 1854 he served as Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island.
==Biography== Calvert was born January 2, 1803, in Prince George County, Maryland.<ref name=Prov250>{{cite book|last1=Greene|first1=Welcome Arnold|title=The Providence Plantations for 250 Years|date=1881|publisher=J.A. & R.A. Reid|location=Providence, RI|page=442}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Riversdale"/> Returning to Baltimore, he edited the ''Baltimore American''. In 1840 he made another trip to Europe, meeting William Wordsworth.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} In 1843, Calvert moved to Newport, Rhode Island.<ref name=Prov250 />
==Marriage== On May 11, 1829, George Calvert married Elizabeth Steuart (1802–1897).<ref name="Riversdale"/> His father was opposed to the match on the grounds that Elizabeth, the daughter of Baltimore physician James Steuart, had little property to her name. However a compromise was eventually reached and, after a suitable delay, the couple were married at the Steuart house in West Baltimore, Maryland Square.
George and Elizabeth had no children.<ref>Challcott, p.375</ref>
==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.<ref name="Riversdale"/>
In 1853, Calvert was elected Mayor of Newport, Rhode Island,<ref name=Prov250 /> and served a term from October 1853 to June 1854.<ref name=StacyHouse />
==Works== * "Cabiro," a poem in the stanza of "Don Juan," of which two cantos were published in 1840, and two more in 1864 *{{Citation | title=Scenes and Thoughts in Europe | place=New York | publisher=Wiley & Putnam | year=1846}} *''Poems,'' Boston: William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847 *{{Citation | title=Introduction to Social Science: A Discourse in Three Parts | place=New York | publisher=Redfield | year=1856}} * ''Comedies'' (1856) * ''The Gentleman,'' Boston: E.P. Dutton and Company, New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866 * ''Anyta and other Poems'' (1863) * ''First Years in Europe'' (1867) * ''Ellen, a Poem'' (1869) * ''Goethe, his Life and Works'' (1872) *''Essays Aesthetical,'' Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1875, New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875 *{{Citation | title=Arnold and Andre. An Historical Drama | place=New York | publisher=Lee and Shepard | year=1876}} He translated and published in 1845 a portion of the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller.
In 1866 he also translated and had published ''Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert''.
==Notes== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Riversdale>{{cite web|title=Timeline|url=http://www.lib.umd.edu/RARE/MarylandCollection/Riversdale/timeline.html|work=Riversdale Bookshelf|publisher=University of Maryland Special Collections|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820153313/http://www.lib.umd.edu/RARE/MarylandCollection/Riversdale/timeline.html|archivedate=20 August 2012}}</ref> }}
==References== * {{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Calvert, George Henry}}
==External links== *[http://www.lib.umd.edu/binaries/content/assets/public/special/projects/riversdale/calvertfamilytree.pdf Calvert Family Tree] (accessed 10 Jul 2013) * {{Gutenberg author |id=4698| name=George Henry Calvert}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=George Henry Calvert |sopt=t}} * {{find a Grave|19522649}} *[https://archive.org/details/gentleman01calvgoog <!-- quote=george henry calvert. --> The Gentleman] at [https://books.google.com Google Books] *[https://www.oxfordreference.com/abstract/10.1093/acref/9780199754663.001.0001/acref-9780199754663-e-170?rskey=qMi9VQ&result=170 The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers] at [https://www.oxfordreference.com Oxford Reference]
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