| Code | DS/UK/467 |
| Dates | 1827-1908 |
| Person Name | Norton; Charles Eliot (1827-1908); Prof. Dr. |
| Surname | Norton |
| Forenames | Charles Eliot |
| Title | Prof. Dr. |
| Activity | First Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University (1873-1898); Editor of the North American Review (1864-68), Co-founder of 'The Nation' (1865); Founder of the Archaeological Institute of America (Boston, 1879); Founder of the American Academy in Rome; Literary executor for John Ruskin (1900-) and Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881). |
| Relationships | Married Susan Ridley Sedgwick (1862-1872); one son, Richard Norton, was also an archaeologist and art historian. |
| History | Harvard University (graduation 1846); toured India and Europe, particularly England (1849-51) and Switzerland (1955-57), where he met John Ruskin. Trip to England (1868), Italy (1869), settled in Dresden (1871); returned to the USA (1872); The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry (distinguished visiting professorship in the Faculty of Arts) at Harvard was established in 1925. Taught James Loeb. |
| Source | Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire de l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, p. 540; Calder, William M. "Charles Eliot Norton." Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Nancy Thomson de Grummond, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996, vol. 2, p. 812; Vanderbilt, Kermit. Charles Eliot Norton: Apostle of Culture in a Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1959; Turner, James. The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999; Norton, Sara, and Howe, Mark Antony DeWolfe, eds. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, with Biographical Comment by his Daughter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913; [obituary] "Dr. C. Eliot Norton Dies in Cambridge." New York Times October 21, 1908, p. 1; "James Loeb", in URL: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Loeb>; "Norton, Charles Eliot", in URL: <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/nortonc.htm > [both accessed 16/11/2010]. |
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