“I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters, but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.”
About Bayard Taylor
11 January 1825–19 December 1878
James Bayard Taylor was born on 11 January 1825 in Kennett Township, near Kennett Square in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died on 19 December 1878 in Berlin, Germany. During his lifetime he was among the most visible American men of letters: a poet, novelist, journalist, lecturer, travel writer, editor…