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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (/ h oʊ m z /; August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day.
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Aug 25, 2024 · Oliver Wendell Holmes (born Aug. 29, 1809, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 7, 1894, Cambridge) was an American physician, poet, and humorist notable for his medical research and teaching, and as the author of the “ Breakfast-Table” series of essays.
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Died: October 7, 1894. Boston, Massachusetts. American physician, author, professor. American physician, teacher, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes contributed to the advancement of medicine and literature. He is also known for writing the famous poem "Old Ironsides." Early life.
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Dr. Holmes developed the popular model of the stereoscope, a nineteenth century entertainment in which two identical pictures were viewed in 3-D. He was widely known and admired during his life. The noted Sherlockian Michael Harrison conjectured that the British author Arthur Conan Doyle drew one inspiration for his famous fictional detective Sherl...
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.""Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified.""If the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be so much the better for mankind–and all the worse for the fishes"Dowling, William C. Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. University Press of New England: Hanover, 2006. ISBN 9781584655794Gossett, Thomas F. Race: the History of an Idea in America.Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963.Harrison, Michael, "A Study in Surmise," Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine(February 1971): 59.Heymann, C. David. American Aristocracy: The Lives and Times of James Russell, Amy, and Robert Lowell. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. ISBN 0396076084All links retrieved November 17, 2022. 1. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Project Gutenberg 2. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmesat Internet Archive 3. Representative Poetry Online: Oliver Wendell Holmes 4. Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Writer, doctor, and educator Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earned a BA at Harvard University in 1829 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1836. He was part of a group of New England-based writers called the Fireside Poets, which included William Cullen Bryant , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , James Russell Lowell ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., left Boston in 1861 an ideological foot soldier for the Union Army. He returned from the war – thanks to some amazing luck – a somber, pragmatic man whose father made him a household name.
On October 7, 1894, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., having outlived his wife and daughter, died in Boston. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The second Oliver Wendell Holmes as born in Boston on March 8, 1841.
