Jeremiah Curtin House
Jeremiah Curtin House
The Jeremiah Curtin House is a unique stone building built in 1846. It was the boyhood home of noted American linguist and folklorist Jeremiah Curtin and is part of the Trimborn Farm estate in Greendale, Wisconsin. The house is owned by the Milwaukee County Historical Society and listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Jeremiah Curtin
Jeremiah Curtin House
Jeremiah Curtin (September 6, 1835 –
December 14, 1906, Vermont) was an American translator and folklorist.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Curtin spent his early life in Milwaukee County and
later graduated from Harvard College in 1863. In 1864 he went to Russia, where
he worked as both a translator and for the U.S. legation. He left Russia in
1877, stayed a year in London, and returned to the United States, where he
worked for the Bureau of Ethnology.
His specialties were his work with American Indian languages and Slavic
languages.
In addition to publishing collections of fairy tales and folklore and writings
about his travels, Curtin translated a number of volumes by Henryk Sienkiewicz,
including his Trilogy set in the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a
couple of volumes on contemporary Poland, and, most famously and profitably, Quo
Vadis (1897). He also published an English version of Bolesław Prus' only
historical novel, Pharaoh, under the title The Pharaoh and the Priest (1902).
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