User:Tokyogirl79LVA/Maximilian Schele De Vere

Maximilian Schele De Vere (born November 1, 1820, died May 12, 1898) was a Swedish-American professor, writer, philologist, and scholar. He served as a professor at the University of Virginia, where he taught modern languages.

His first book, Outlines of Comparative Philology, was published in 1853 and American writer Walt Whitman would later copy a paragraph from his 1855 book Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature into the 1856 and 1860 editions of his poetry book Leaves of Grass.

As author

 * Outlines of Comparative Philology (1853)
 * Grammar of the Spanish Language, with a History of the Language, and Practical Exercises (1854)
 * Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature (1855)
 * Studies in English; Or, Glimpses of the Inner Life of Our Language (1867)
 * First French Reader: For Beginners (1867)
 * Wonders of the Deep (1869)
 * Introduction to the Study of French (1870)
 * The Great Empress: A Portrait (1870)
 * Americanisms: The English of the New World (1872)
 * The Romance of American History: Early Annals (1872)
 * Modern Magic (1873)
 * The French Verb: A New, Clear and Easy Method for the Study of the French Verb (1891)

As translator

 * Problematic Characters (1869)
 * Through Night to Light (1869)
 * The Hohensteins  (1870)