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John Lothrop Motley was born in Dorchester, Massachussets, on April 15, 1814, to an old New England merchant family. His grandfather, Thomas Motley, a jail-keeper (a public position) and innkeeper in Portland, Maine. Motley's father Thomas and uncle Edward served mercantile apprenticeships in Portland.
He studied under historian George Bancroft at the noted Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachussets, and then went on to Harvard. After graduating in 1831 Motley continued his studies in Germany at Göttingen and Berlin.
After 1840 Motley pursued both a diplomat's and a historian's career. For a few months in 1841 he was secretary of the U. S. legation in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1847 he settled on his life's work as a writer: the study of the struggle of the Netherlands for independence from Spain. Motley served as minister to Austria (1861 - 1867) and as minister to Great Britain (1869 - 1870).
Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic (3 vols. , 1856), published at his own expense, was an immediate success. Like other romantic historians, he wove his material into a picturesque, dramatic narrative dominated by striking personalities.
Motley's next work was The History of the United Netherlands (4 vols. , 1860 - 1867). He hoped to cap his lifework with a history of the Thirty Years War, but it remained undone.
Instead, he published The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland (1874), which included a study of the "causes and movements" of the Thirty Years War. Motley's work accented political and religious liberty and the threat to it posed by Catholicism and the Spanish monarchy.
His passion for research and the artistry of his composition, however, made him a master historian. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1879) compared Motley's colorful style to Peter Paul Rubens's paintings. Later scholars wrote their own versions of the rise of the Dutch Republic, but they paid tribute to the vitality of Motley's narrative. He died at Frampton Court, England, on May 29, 1877.
He is best known for his outstanding history of the Dutch struggle for independence, his two popular histories The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The United Netherlands. Motley was appointed United States minister to the Austrian Empire, working with other American diplomats he helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
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His Protestant bias was exceedingly strong. A serious flaw in Motley's books was his tendency to contrast the best of Protestant civilization with the worst of Catholicism.
He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1856.
In 1837 he married Mary Benjamin (died 1874).
