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George Allen was born on December 17, 1808 at Milton, Vermont, United States. He was the son of Sarah (Prentiss) Allen and Heman Allen, a successful lawyer, distinguished judge, and member of Congress.
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George Allen was born on December 17, 1808 at Milton, Vermont, United States. He was the son of Sarah (Prentiss) Allen and Heman Allen, a successful lawyer, distinguished judge, and member of Congress.
Allen was sent to Canada at the age of sixteen, where he studied French in the household of Father Consigny and acquired a sympathetic understanding of Roman Catholicism. In 1823 he entered the University of Vermont, where he was influenced by Robertson, Porter, and Marsh, the latter, particularly, awakening his interest in Coleridge, Wordsworth, and the German Romanticists. He graduated in 1827. During 1830 he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1831. In 1868, the University of Pennsylvania granted Allen an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
Allen began his teaching in an academy at Georgia, Vermont. From 1828 to 1830 he filled a vacancy in Languages, which was the occasion for beginning serious classical study.
After his father was elected to Congress, he gave some attention to the law office, but soon slighted it for a newly awakened interest in religion and the church.
In 1832 he was confirmed and began to study Hebrew and theology, while he taught classics at the Vermont Episcopal Institute. In May 1834 he was ordained and began to preach. Because of ill health, the strenuous combination of two professions was relinquished, and he accepted the rectorship of a church in St. Albans, where he spent three happy and significant years. With the practise in sermon writing, he experienced a "reawakening of a literary spirit, more intense and enthusiastic than I had ever known before. " The reawakening bore fruit in an article, "The Study of Works of Genius, " published in the New York Review, and in his justly celebrated "Critical Review" of McVickar's edition of Coleridge's Aids to Reflection.
In 1837 he returned to teaching, and continued in that profession till his death. For eight years he was professor of Languages in Delaware College, whence he was called in 1845 to the chair of Latin and Greek at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1864 he was made professor of Greek. About the middle of the century a movement began having as its objective a greater university with curtailment of the college. This found expression in a much-discussed "Letter and By-Laws, " reported by the trustees November 3, 1852. To the views of the letter and its proposals Allen raised vigorous objections in a closely reasoned statement covering twenty-one pages. Allen also served, for a time, as counsel in Philadelphia for Pope Pius IX.
His published works include The Remains of W. S. Graham (1849); The Life of Philidor (1863); The History of the Automaton Chess Player in America (1859), and many articles for the United States Service Magazine, edited by Coppée. Though his scholarly attainments were well known and recognized by such men as Hadley, Felton, and Woolsey, he published no contribution to classical scholarship. As a teacher, however, he had few rivals.
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Allen was raised a Congregationalist, but he later joined the Episcopal Church as a young man in 1824. In 1847 he startled, and even alienated, some of his friends by becoming a Catholic. This sudden and superficially inexplicable change was due to several factors, -- notably, his life and study in the household of Father Consigny, the secession of a number of the Oxford group to join the Roman church, and the fact that he had defended Mr. Hoyt, former associate and close friend, who had taken a similar action a year earlier.
Allen was a polished scholar and efficient instructor who taught with brilliant success. As a scholar, especially in Greek literature, he combined the nicest accuracy with a broad range of attainment. He also wanted no one of the qualities of the finished gentleman.
On July 7, 1831 Allen married Mary Hancock Withington. They had four children.