He also wrote George Castriot, Surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania, which appeared in 1852 and was highly commended at the time.ĭespite this scholarship, it was the simple but magical poem about the mysterious Christmas Eve visitor that has kept the memory of Clement Clarke Moore alive. Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, Which Appear to Have a Tendency to Subvert Religion and Establish a False Philosophy, and was often a contributor to the editorial pages of local newspapers. He translated Juvenal, edited his father’s sermons, wrote treatises and political pamphlets, including his well-known 1804 attack on our third president in Observations Upon Certain Passages in Mr. Nicholas, but it was not until he was sixty-five, in 1844, that he first acknowledged that he was the author of the famous verses by including the poem in a small book of his poetry entitled Poems, which he had published at the request of his children. He was forty-three when he wrote A Visit from St. Moore’s connection with that institution continued for over twenty-five years.Īt the age of thirty, he compiled a Hebrew lexicon, the first work of its kind in America.
Located on land donated by the “Bard of Chelsea” himself, the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20 th and 21 st Streets, in an area known as Chelsea Square. Nicholas in 1822, Moore was a Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He became a well-known and respected scholar and, typical for an educated person of his period, Moore’s publications related to a wide variety of topics such as religion, languages, politics, and poetry.
Moore was educated at home in his early youth and graduated first in his class from Columbia in 1798.
Benjamin Moore, Episcopal Bishop of New York, Rector of Trinity Church, and President of Columbia College. He was the only child of heiress Charity Clarke and Dr. The house itself was located at what is now Eighth Avenue and West 23 rd Street. Clement Clarke Moore was born on July 15, 1779, in a large mansion, on his parents’ Chelsea estate that encompassed the area that is now 18 th to 24 th Streets between Eighth and Tenth Avenues in Manhattan.
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