Henry James Anderson

**Henry James Anderson** (an haife shi a ranar 6 ga watan Fabrairu, 1799 - 19 ga Oktoba, 1875) masanin kimiyya ne kuma malami ɗan Amurka wanda ya yi aiki tare da jikan Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Dallas Bache . Ya zama Kwamandan Knight, Shugaban Majalisar Musamman ta New York, kuma Shugaban Majalisar Koli.

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haife shi a birnin New York, kuma ya kammala karatunsa daga Kwalejin Columbia a shekarar 1818, daga baya ya karanci likitanci a Kwalejin Likitoci da Likitocin Fida ta Jami'ar Columbia da ke New York. Bai daɗe yana aikin likitanci ba, amma ya sadaukar da kansa ga harkokin kimiyya da adabi. An naɗa shi farfesa a fannin lissafi da ilmin taurari a Kwalejin Columbia a shekarar 1825, lokacin yana da shekaru ashirin da shida; ya ci gaba da riƙe kujerarsa har zuwa 1843.  An zaɓi Anderson a matsayin Mataimakin Fellow na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a shekarar 1831. 

Ya auri Fanny Da Ponte, 'yar Lorenzo Da Ponte, wani abokin hulɗar Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Sun haifi 'ya'ya biyu masu suna Elbert Ellery da Edward Henry. Elbert Ellery ya auri Augusta Chauncey, jikanyar Commodore Isaac Chauncey, kuma ɗansu Peter Chauncey Anderson ya auri Mary Yale Ogden, na iyalan Yale da Ogden . Ita jikanyar Olivia Yale ce, 'yar Kanar Braddam Yale, kuma tana da alaƙa da Edith Ogden, matar Magajin Garin Chicago Carter Harrison IV (shi kansa ɗan uwan Shugaban Amurka William Henry Harrison ne ) da Aaron Ogden, gwamnan New Jersey.    

Daga 1840 zuwa 1844, Anderson ya zauna na ɗan lokaci a birnin Paris inda ya yi aiki kafada da kafada da masanin ilmin taurari François Arago, Carl Friedrich Gauss, da Alexander Dallas Bache (jikan Benjamin Franklin ), wanda daga baya ya kafa "Magnetische Verein" (Ƙungiyar Magnetic).  A shekara ta 1848 a matsayin masanin ilimin ƙasa, ya raka tawagar binciken Tekun Matattu ta Amurka, wanda Kyaftin William F. Lynch ya jagoranta.

Rahotannin da ya bayar daga binciken, *Sake Binciken Ƙasa na Sashen Ƙasa Mai Tsarki*, gwamnatin Amurka ce ta buga su a shekarun 1848 da 1849. A ƙarƙashin ƙungiyar American Geographical and Statistical Society, Anderson ya aika da takardar neman goyon baya ga Amurka da ta haɓaka mulkin mallaka na Yahudawa a Falasɗinu, wani ɓangare na yunkurin dawo da Yahudawa da ya yi fure a lokacin.  Ya kasance amintaccen kwalejin Columbia daga 1851 har zuwa rasuwarsa kuma farfesa ne na emumetrius daga 1866. 

Anderson ya koma addinin Katolika a shekarar 1849; ya kasance mai himma a cikin sabuwar addininsa har tsawon rayuwarsa. An naɗa shi shugaban Majalisar Musamman ta New York a shekarar 1856, daga baya kuma ya zama shugaban Majalisar Koli a shekarar 1860. Ya bayar da filaye don Cocin St. Gabriel na Manhattan a shekarar 1859.  Ya ziyarci Paparoma Pius IX a Rome sau da yawa, kuma daga ƙarshe aka naɗa shi Kwamandan Knight na odar St. Gregory Mai Girma . Ya yi aikin hajji zuwa Lourdes da Rome a shekarar 1875; daga baya, ya yi tafiya zuwa Ostiraliya don ganin hanyar Venus . Ya yi niyyar komawa gida ta Indiya, amma, bayan ya hau dutse a cikin Himalayas, ya mutu sakamakon wata cuta a Lahore a ranar 19 ga Oktoba, yana da shekaru 76.

An binne shi a cikin wani ma'ajiyar ƙasa a ƙarƙashin Cocin Madonna da ke Fort Lee, New Jersey, wani coci wanda ya kasance yana da hannu a gininsa.

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