biography
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| lived:
| (1822–82)
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| biography:
| Protestant religious leader and writer, born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. A physician's son, he graduated from Harvard and Harvard Divinity School, and in collaboration with a friend, he published a hymnal in 1848. Initially a Unitarian, he became minister of the Free Church in Lynn, MA. He opposed slavery, was a mystic and poet, and in the 1870s published a series of scholarly studies of Oriental religions. |
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