John Weiss
About the Author
John Weiss wrote the two-volume Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker (1864), combining biography with Parker’s letters and accounts of his religious and reform work.
Source: the work’s title page and contents.
Resources by John Weiss
Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, Volume II
The second volume of John Weiss’s biography follows Theodore Parker’s literary work, antislavery activity, correspondence, final European journey and last illness. Its account of his stay at Combe-Varin records his friendship and religious conversations with the German Catholic reformer Hans Lorenz Küchler.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1864. Volume II of the two-volume work, containing chapters XVI–XXVIII, six appendices and the index to both volumes. The scan preserves the original text and illustrations.
Read LessLife and Correspondence of Theodore Parker, Volume I
The first volume of John Weiss’s biography of Theodore Parker, minister of Boston’s Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society. It traces Parker’s family background, education, ministry, European travels, friendships and religious thought through narrative and correspondence.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1864. This is volume I of a two-volume work. The correspondence includes Parker’s exchanges with European reformers, making the volume an important source for transatlantic liberal religion. Chapter navigation follows the fifteen chapters of the original contents.
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- Proceedings at the First Annual Meeting of the Free Religious Association, Held in Boston, May 28th and 29th, 1868 — Address of John Weiss (Contributor) — 48
- Freedom and Fellowship in Religion: A Collection of Essays and Addresses — Religion and Science (Author) — 135