Charles Timothy Brooks (June 20, 1813 – June 14, 1883) was a noted American translator of German works, a poet, a transcendentalist and a Unitarian pastor.

Biography

Charles Timothy Brooks was born in Salem, Massachusetts on June 20, 1813. He graduated at Harvard in 1832, then studied theology and in 1835 began to preach in Nahant, Massachusetts. He married Harriet Lyman Hazard in October 1837, and they had four children. He served as a preacher in various New England towns until he became pastor of the Unitarian church in Newport, Rhode Island on June 4, 1837, where he remained until his death on June 14, 1883. In addition to his translations, he published theological writings, contributed to The Dial, a transcendentalist publication, and wrote a biography of William Ellery Channing, another Unitarian minister in Newport, Rhode Island (William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory, 1880).

Works

German translations into English

Poetry

Other works

According to Appleton's Encyclopedia, several of Brooks' works were unpublished years after his death: "Among his unpublished translations are Schiller's "Mary Stuart" and "Joan of Arc" (1840): the "Autobiography of Klaus Harms"; Richter's "Selina"; Grillparzer's "Ahn-frau"; Immermann's "Der letzte Tulifant," and Hams Sachs's play, "The Unlike Children of Eve," first acted in 1553. In 1853, after a voyage to India for his health, Mr. Brooks wrote a narrative titled "Eight Months on the Ocean and Eight Weeks in India," which is also still in manuscript."