biography
pronunciation:
[bakman]
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| lived:
| (1790–1874)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and naturalist, born in Rhinebeck, New York, USA. A naturalist and a spiritual thinker from his youth, he was ordained as a Lutheran minister (1814) and led a congregation in Charleston, SC (1815–65). He met John James Audubon in 1831 and they co-wrote The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845–9). Two of Bachman's daughters married Audubon's sons. Unfortunately connected with the movement towards secession (1861), Bachman was forced to leave Charleston at the end of the Civil War, but he was known for his personal kindnesses to African-Americans. |
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