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Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892) was an American clergyman and hymn writer. ==Biography== Samuel Longfellow was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine, the last of eight children of Stephen and Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow.〔Abdo, Joseph C. ''The Quiet Radical: The Biography of Samuel Longfellow''. Lisbon, Portugal: Tenth Island Editions, 2008: 24. ISBN 9789729985829〕 His older brother was the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He attended Harvard College and graduated in 1839 ranked eighth in a class of 61.〔Abdo, Joseph C. ''The Quiet Radical: The Biography of Samuel Longfellow''. Lisbon, Portugal: Tenth Island Editions, 2008: 56. ISBN 9789729985829〕 He went on to study at Harvard Divinity School, where his classmates included Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Samuel Johnson, with whom he would later collaborate in his hymn writing. He is considered part of the second-generation of transcendentalists;〔Gura, Philip F. ''American Transcendentalism: A History''. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007: 8. ISBN 0-8090-3477-8〕 after becoming a Unitarian pastor, he adapted the transcendental philosophy he had encountered in divinity school into his hymns and sermons. Longfellow served as a pastor in Fall River, Massachusetts (1848), Brooklyn's Second Unitarian Church (1853), and Germantown, Pennsylvania (1878-1882). After his older brother's death, Longfellow published a two-volume biography of him in 1886.〔Wayne, Tiffany. ''Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism''. New York: Facts on File, 2006: 169. ISBN 978-0-8160-5626-2〕 He wrote the book while living at his brother's former home, Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts.〔McKim, LindaJo H. ''The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion''. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993: 228. ISBN 0-664-25180-3〕 His other publications include ''Final Memories of H. W. Longfellow'' (1887), ''Vespers'' (1859), ''A Book of Hymns and Tunes'' (1860, revised 1876) and, with Samuel Johnson, he edited ''A Book of Hmyns for Public and Private Devotion'' (1846) and ''Hymns of the Spirit'' (1864).〔 Longfellow died in 1892 and is buried in Western Cemetery in Portland's West End. 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「Samuel Longfellow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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