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Name: George Perkins Marsh
Birth Date: March 15, 1801
Death Date: July 23, 1882
Place of Birth: Woodstock, Vermont, United States
Place of Death: Vallombrosa, Italy
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: diplomat, philologist, conservationist, politician, lawyer

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George Perkins Marsh (15 March 1801-23 July 1882), philologist and miscellaneous writer, was born in Woodstock, Vermont. His cousin was James Marsh, the philosopher-president of the University of Vermont. Marsh graduated from Dartmouth College in 1820...
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George Perkins Marsh is known today primarily as the author of Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (1864), one of the most original and farsighted books of the nineteenth century. In an era devoted to the limitless...
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The writings of George Perkins Marsh encompass one of the broadest ranges of those of any scholar and public figure in nineteenth-century America. A lawyer, legislator, philologist, linguist, diplomat, and geographer, he produced works on topics as...
 


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George Perkins Marsh (March 15, 1801 – July 23, 1882), an American diplomat and philologist, is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist. [1] The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont takes its name, in...


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