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Oliver Wendell Holmes
American poet and physician (1809–1894)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 August 1809, 1809
- Died
- 7 October 1894, 1894
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Boston
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Holmes
- Father
- Abiel Holmes
- Mother
- Sarah Wendell
- Spouse
- Amelia Lee Jackson
- Occupation
- physician, poet, physician writer, university teacher, novelist, medical author, writer
- Position held
- professor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- described by source
- Asthma among the famous. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician, author, and philosopher, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
- educated at
- Harvard Medical School, Phillips Academy, Harvard College
- employer
- Harvard University
- has works in the collection
- National Gallery of Canada, J. Paul Getty Museum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- medical condition
- asthma
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa Society, American Philosophical Society
- notable work
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Ode for Washington’s Birthday, Angel of Peace, A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party, Lord of All Being, Old Ironsides, The Flower of Liberty, The Katydid, The Sweet Little Man
- place of burial
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
- writing language
- English
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