EVANS, Edward P., an American scholar and
author, born at Remsen, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1833. His father was a Welsh Presbyterian clergyman, who emigrated to the west in 1842. Edward graduated at the university of Michigan in 1854, taught an academy in Hernando, Miss., one year, and then became professor in Carroll college, Waukesha, Wis. From 1858 to 1862 he travelled in Europe, and studied
in the universities of Göttingen, Berlin, and
Munich. In the autumn of 1862 he became
professor of modern languages in the university
of Michigan, which position he resigned in 1870
to travel in Europe and collect materials for a
history of German literature. He has
published translations of Stahr's life of Lessing
(2 vols., Boston, 1866) and Coquerel's “First
Historical Transformations of Christianity” (Boston, 1867); Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte (New York, 1869); and various philosophical articles in periodicals.