Background
Evans, Edward Payson was born on December 8, 1831 in Remsen, New York, United States. Son of Review Evan and Mary (Williams) Evans.
Evans, Edward Payson was born on December 8, 1831 in Remsen, New York, United States. Son of Review Evan and Mary (Williams) Evans.
Removed to Michigan, 1850. Bachelor of Arts, University of Michigan, 1854, Master of Arts, 1857. Taught in academic, Hernando, Mississippi, 1855.
Professor Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1856-1857.
Traveled and studied abroad, 1857-1863. Professor modern language and literature, University of Michigan, 1862-1867.
In Europe since 1870. Connected with the Allgemeine Zeitung of Munich since 1884. Also contributor to Die Nation, Berlin.
Litterarischer Centralblatt, Blatter fur Litterarische Unterhaltung, Leipzig.
Deutsche Litteraturzeitung, Berlin, and Frankfurter Zeitung, Frankfort. Also to various American publications.
Known as an Oriental scholar. Declined professorship of Sanskrit, University of Lahore, India, 1873.
Author: Life and Works of Gotthold, Ephraim Lessing (from German of Adolf Stahr), 1866.
First Historical Transformation of Christianity (from French of Athanase Coquerel, Junior), 1867. Abriss der Deutschen Litteraturgeschichte, 1869. Progressive German Reader, 1870.
Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture, 1896.
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology, 1898. Beiträge zur Amerikanischen Litteratur und Kulturgeschichte, Volume I, 1898, Volunteer II, 1903.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, 1906. Now writing in English a History of German Literature (5 volumes).
Also many contributions to American and German reviews, magazines, et cetera
Address: 23 Hammond Saint, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Married Elizabeth Edson Gibson, 1868 (died, 1911).