John Lawson Stoddard

John Lawson Stoddard ( born April 24, 1850 in Brookline, Massachusetts, † June 5, 1931 in Merano, Italy) was an American travel writer.

Life

Stoddard graduated in 1871 from Williams College, then studied for two years of theology at Yale Divinity School, Yale University and then taught French and Latin at Boston Latin School.

In 1879, he began traveling the world to do and published in 1883 his first travel book Red Letter Days Abroad. His experiences he processed into several rows of lectures which he held throughout North America. These lectures were published under the title Stoddard 's Lectures in book form and included last ten volumes, and five supplementary volumes. The books included numerous photographs taken by Stoddard himself, covering every area of art and architecture to archeology and natural history. These travel books gained immense popularity.

In his later life, Stoddard wrote also poetry and works on religious themes.

Since 1913 Stoddard lived in Merano in Austria - Hungary, which was occupied in 1918 by Italy, and wrote in his villa in Upper Stoddard corn enthusiastic poems: Maia! Maia! Charming bit of Paradise ....

Stoddard was married to Ida M. O'Donnell ( born February 4, 1859 Morristown (Ohio ), Belmont County, † May 15, 1949 in Meran ). From this marriage the son of Theodore Lothrop Stoddard emerged.