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Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read.
Noah Webster, American lexicographer (one who compiles a dictionary), remembered now almost solely as the compiler of a continuously successful dictionary, was for half a century among the more influential and most active literary men in the United States.
Noah Webster (1758 – 1843), was a lexicographer and a language reformer. He is often called the Father of American Scholarship and Education. In his lifetime he was also a lawyer, schoolmaster, author, newspaper editor and an outspoken politician.
May 24, 2024 · Noah Webster was an American lexicographer known for his American Spelling Book (1783) and his American Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1828; 2nd ed., 1840). Webster was instrumental in giving American English a dignity and vitality of its own.
Noah Webster, Senior, Noah’s father, was born in Hartford in 1722 and settled early in what was then called the West Division of Hartford (now known as West Hartford), and he lived to the ripe old age of 91. He held many posts in the local government and married Mercy Steele in 1749.
Webster’s “Blue-Backed Speller” taught children how to read, write, spell, and pronounce words for over 100 years. For more information on the Blue-Backed Speller, read Orin Hargreaves’ article on Noah Webster and his work on the Speller.
To some extent the Harvard professor and The New Yorker writer Jill Lepore refers to Noah Webster, and she's a scholar of the 18th century, she says, he's not a founding father, he's sort of a founding uncle because he was very much present and he was a political pamphleteer.
