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John Rose Greene Hassard, usually John R. G. Hassard, sometimes Jno. R. G. Hassard, (September 4, 1836 – April 18, 1888) was an American literary and music critic and newspaper editor. ==Life and career== Hassard was born in New York City, in a house on Houston Street in Manhattan,〔 and lived the majority of his life in that city.〔("John R.G. Hassard Dead; A Life Full of Work, Despite Continued Ill-Health" ), ''New York Times'' (April 19, 1888)〕 His family background was French Huguenot.〔 His mother was a granddaughter of Commodore Samuel Nicholson of American Revolutionary War fame, and she and her husband were both Episcopalians. Hassard, however, became a Catholic at the age of fifteen. After graduating from St. John's College in New York in 1855 (now Fordham University), and then receiving an M.A. from there in 1857, he entered the Diocesan Seminary〔 with the intention of studying for the priesthood. Ill-health, however, forced him to abandon this idea and he turned to journalistic writing,〔 with which he had some experience while attending college.〔 After he left the seminary, Hassard became the secretary to Archbishop John Hughes, the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, serving in that capacity until Hughes' death in 1864. Afterwards, he wrote his first book, a biography of the late Archbishop, which was published in 1866.〔〔Hassard, John R. G. ''Life of the Most Reverend John Hughes, D.D.: first archbishop of New York, with extracts from his private correspondence'', New York: Appleton, 1866, , repr. Kessinger Publishing's legacy reprints, Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger, 2010, ISBN 9781163540022〕 Hassard was at the same time the assistant editor of the ''American Cyclopedia'' from 1857 to 1863, which brought him to the attention of the literary editor of the ''New York Tribune'', George Ripley, who hired Hassard to fill in for him temporarily while he was in Europe. Hassard was briefly the first editor of ''Catholic World'', but left that position for Chicago, where he edited Charles A. Dana's newspaper, the ''Chicago Republican''. After its closure in 1867, he returned permanently to the ''New York Tribune'', where he spent the remainder of his career. Hassard succeeded Ripley as literary editor of the ''Tribune'', in which capacity he wrote many book reviews,〔 and was the music critic until 1883.〔 He was also the managing editor of the newspaper for a time after the death of Horace Greeley in 1872.〔Walsh, James J. ("John R. G. Hassard" ) ''Catholic World'' (June 1913), reprinted in Paulist Fathers. ''Catholic World v.97'' (1913) pp.349-59〕 In his history of the newspaper, Harry William Baehr characterized him as "() lank-built man with sandy hair and side whiskers, () possessed real charm of style and breadth of culture".〔Baehr, Harry William, Jr., (''The New York Tribune Since the Civil War'' ) New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936, , repr. 1972, ISBN 9780374903350, p. 27〕 As music critic of the ''Tribune'', Hassan was a Wagnerite; he wrote dispatches from the Wagner festival at Bayreuth, which were republished as a book on the first performance of ''The Ring''.〔Hassard, John R. G. ''The Ring of the Nibelungs: A Description of Its First Performance in August 1876'', New York: Hart, 1877, .〕 Beside the biography of Archbishop Hughes, Hassard wrote a life of Pope Pius IX,〔Hassard, John R. G. ''The life of Pope Pius IX'', New York: Catholic Publication Co., 1878, 〕 as well as a ''History of the United States'' for use in Catholic schools.〔Hassard, John R. G. ''A history of the United States of America For the use of schools'', New York, Catholic Publication Society Co., 1878, , 9th ed. 1890, .〕 His 1881 book ''A Pickwickian Pilgrimage'' is based on his letters to the newspaper from England, in which he followed as faithfully as possible the places of Charles Dickens' ''The Pickwick Papers''.〔〔Hassard, John R. G. ''A Pickwickian Pilgrimage'', Boston: Osgood, 1881, , repr. General Books, 2010, ISBN 9781443268790.〕 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 R. G. Hassard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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