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John George Nicolay (February 26, 1832 – September 26, 1901) was a German-born American biographer, secretary of US President Abraham Lincoln and member of the German branch of the Nicolay family.〔'Nicolay - A Preliminary Study of the Descendants of John Jacob Nicolay' by Kay F.Sellers (1945)〕 ==Life and career== He was born Johann Georg Nicolay in Essingen, Rhenish Bavaria. In 1838, he immigrated to the United States with his father and attended school in Cincinnati. He later moved to Illinois, where he edited the ''Pike County Free Press'' at Pittsfield, and became a political power in the state. Then he became assistant to the secretary of state of Illinois. While in this position, he met Abraham Lincoln and became his devoted adherent. In 1861, Lincoln appointed Nicolay as his private secretary, which was the first official act of his new administration. Nicolay served in this capacity until Lincoln's death in 1865. Shortly before his assassination, Lincoln appointed Nicolay to a diplomatic post in France.〔Doris Kearns Goodwin, ''Team of Rivals'', p. 705.〕 After the death of the President, Nicolay became United States Consul at Paris, France (1865–69). For some time after his return to the United States, he edited the Chicago ''Republican''. He was Marshal of the United States Supreme Court (1872–1887). In 1881, Nicolay wrote ''The Outbreak of the Rebellion''. Nicolay and John Hay, who had worked alongside Nicolay as assistant secretary to Lincoln, collaborated on the official biography of the 16th President. It appeared in ''The Century Magazine'' serially from 1886 to 1890 and was then issued (1890–94) in book form as ten volumes, together with the two-volume ''Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln''. The resulting biography is a definitive resource on Lincoln and his times. Nicolay and Hay also edited Lincoln's ''Works'' in twelve volumes (1905). Finally, ''Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln'' was published by Helen Nicolay in 1912. Nicolay was a founding member of the Literary Society of Washington in 1874, according to a book about the society written by his daughter, Helen Nicolay. Both Nicolay and Hay were members of long standing in the society.〔Nicolay and Hay are listed in the directory of members of the society in Helen Nicolay's ''(Sixty Years of the Literary Society )'', Washington, D.C., 1934. Library of Congress call number PN22.L53 N5. Google Books ().〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John George Nicolay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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