Olive Wendell of cross-beam SR. (* 29 August 1808 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; "† 8 October 1894 in Boston, measure.) was an American physician and writer.

It studied at Philips Academy in Andover (Massachusetts), later in Paris and in Harvard medicine. Later it became professor for physiology and anatomy at the Dartmouth college. 1861 it developed a Stereoskop, which found far spreading.

As a poet he already attained 1830 with the poem "old Ironsides" national celebrity. The praise poem on the frigate USS Constitution, which should be deactivated, affected the American public so much that a campaign against the scrapping of the ship began. 1835 were activated the USS Constitution after a congress resolution again and drive on until today as the oldest ship of US Navy the seas.

Cross-beam trained themselves at models such as Alexander Pope and olive Goldsmith and wrote gediegene, often gently ironical poems, besides three novels. From the establishment of the sheet he was publisher of the Atlantic Monthly on. Admit became above all its Breakfast table writings, collections of essays, anecdotes and Hauslyrik.

Beside James Russell Lowell and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow he was one the prominent intellectual Bostons, which entered after an utterance Holmes' as "Brahmanen of Boston" literature history of the USA. In 20. It applied for century inside with the mentioned as one of the most important American poets. Today it disappeared with the other Brahmanen of the curricula.

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