George Bancroft

**George Bancroft**
	American historian, statesman, founder of United States Naval Academy (1800-1891) George Bancroft por John Plumbe, 1846. National Portrait Gallery
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Name in native language	George Bancroft;
Date of birth	3 October 1800; Worcester
Date of death	17 January 1891; Washington, D.C.
Place of burial	Rural Cemetery;
Country of citizenship	United States;
Educated at	Harvard University; University of Göttingen; Heidelberg University; Phillips Exeter Academy; Harvard College;
Occupation	diplomat; historian of Modern Age; historian; academic; writer; politician; translator; teacher;
Member of	Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople (honorary member, 1872–); American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Q137396482, Q137387014, 1877–1883); Russian Academy of Sciences; Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; American Antiquarian Society; Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities; American Historical Association (president); Academy of Sciences of Turin (1873–); Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony; American Philosophical Society (1841–); Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Q137396485, Q137387014, 1883–);
Member of political party	Democratic Party;
Position held	United States Secretary of the Navy (1845–1846); ambassador; board member (1874–1878); United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom;
Field of work	diplomat; history; writer; diplomacy; politics; translation;
Father	Aaron Bancroft;
Mother	Lucretia Bancroft (Chandler);
Sibling	Eliza Bancroft;
Spouse	Elizabeth Davis Bancroft;
Work location	Göttingen; Berlin;
Award received	Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
Authority file
	Q741482; ISNI: 0000000108894019; VIAF cluster ID: 39386684; GND ID: 118656996; Library of Congress authority ID: n50036519; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 119927186; IdRef ID: 028004388; Libraries Australia ID: 35013036; NL CR AUT ID: xx0319288; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000014906; National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX1155837; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 070249288; BIBSYS ID: 1025708; NUKAT ID: n2005012053; U.S. National Archives Identifier: 10582409; National Library of Poland MMS ID: 9810643301405606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007257991205171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA03197455; SBN author ID: NAPV131840; Open Library ID: OL158914A
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English: George Bancroft.

Brady-Handy Photograph Collection (Library of Congress), circa 1855-1865
"Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside" (Bancroft is on far right)