William Allen (mai ba da labari)

William Allen (2 ga Janairu, 1784 – 16 ga Yuli, 1868) marubuci ne, masanin tarihi kuma masanin ilimi ɗan Amurka. Ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban Jami'ar Dartmouth da Kwalejin Bowdoin .

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An haifi William Allen a Pittsfield, Massachusetts a shekarar 1784.  Ya kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Harvard da ke Cambridge a shekarar 1802 kuma bayan shekaru da dama na aiki ya zama mataimakin mai kula da laburare a Harvard. Ya zama Fasto na Pittsfield a shekarar 1810; Shugaban Jami'ar Dartmouth, 1817; da Shugaban Kwalejin Bowdoin 1820-1839. Shi ne ya fi daukar nauyin kafa Makarantar Likitanci ta Maine a Kwalejin Bowdoin a shekarar 1820. Ya yi murabus a shekarar 1839, ya kuma mutu a Northampton a shekarar 1868. name="Cyclopaedia" 

Ya shirya littafinsa na American Biography and Historical Dictionary (1809), littafin farko na tarihin rayuwa gabaɗaya da aka buga a Amurka. A shekara ta 1810 ya gaji mahaifinsa a matsayin fasto na Cocin da ke Pittsfield. An zaɓi Allen a matsayin memba na American Antiquarian Society a shekara ta 1814.  An zaɓe shi shugaban Jami'ar Dartmouth a shekara ta 1818 kuma ya ci gaba har sai da Kotun Kwalejin Dartmouth ta rushe cibiyar a shekara ta 1819. A shekara ta 1820 ya je Kwalejin Bowdoin, wacce ya shugabanci har zuwa shekara ta 1839, lokacin da ya yi murabus ya kuma sadaukar da kansa ga karatun adabi. An zaɓe shi a matsayin Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a shekara ta 1823.  name="AAAS">

Ya tattara kalmomi 10,000 waɗanda ba su cikin ƙamus na yau da kullun ba, kuma ya buga su a matsayin ƙarin bayani ga Webster's Dictionary . Ya rubuta Junius Unmasked, wanda a ciki ya nemi ya tabbatar da cewa Lord Sackville shine marubucin wasiƙun Junius (Boston, 1828); Zabura da Waƙoƙi (1835); Memoirs na Dr. Eleazar Wheelock da na Dr. John Codman (1853); Jawabi a Ƙarshen Ƙarni na Biyu na Mazaunin a Northampton, Massachusetts (1854); Wunnissoo, ko kuma Vale of Housatonnuck, waƙa (Boston, 1856); laccar Dudleian a Cambridge; littafin Christian Sonnets (Northampton, 1860); Waƙoƙin Nazareth da Gicciye (1866); Waƙoƙi Masu Tsarki (1867); da ƙasidu da yawa, kuma ya ba da gudummawar labarai na tarihin rayuwa ga littafin Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit . Duba Rayuwarsa, tare da Zaɓuɓɓuka daga Wasikunsa (Philadelphia, 1847).

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