Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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essayist person physician poet professor

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist known for his wit, literary works, and contributions to medical reform.

Aliases (1)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	essayist → person → physician → poet → professor →
birthDate	1809-08-29 →
birthPlace	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States →
child	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1894-10-07 →
deathPlace	Boston, Massachusetts, United States →
educatedAt	Harvard College → Harvard Medical School → Phillips Academy Andover → University of Paris →
employer	Harvard Medical School →
familyName	Holmes →
fieldOfWork	literature → medical reform → medicine → poetry →
fullName	Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. →
genre	essay → poetry →
givenName	Oliver →
knownFor	lyric poetry → medical reform advocacy → popular lectures → witty essays →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences →
movement	Fireside Poets →
notableIdea	advocacy of the contagiousness of puerperal fever →
notableWork	A Sun-Day Hymn → Old Ironsides → The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table → The Chambered Nautilus → The Poet at the Breakfast-Table → The Professor at the Breakfast-Table →
occupation	essayist → physician → poet → professor →
placeOfBurial	Mount Auburn Cemetery →
positionHeld	Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Harvard Medical School →
religion	Unitarianism →
spouse	Amelia Lee Jackson →
wrote	Old Ironsides → The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table → The Chambered Nautilus →

Referenced by (26)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Sun-Day Hymn → Breakfast-Table series → Old Ironsides → The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table → The Chambered Nautilus →	author
Hollis Hall → Holworthy Hall →	hasNotableResident
Ticknor and Fields → Ticknor, Reed & Fields →	publishedAuthor
Old Corner Bookstore →	associatedWith
The Autocrat →	associatedWithAuthorPersona
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table ("Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.") →	authorFullName
Mount Auburn Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
The Autocrat →	createdBy
A Sun-Day Hymn →	creator
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. →	father
The Atlantic Monthly →	founder
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. →	fullName
Fireside Poets →	hasMember
Holmes →	hasNotableBearer
Oliver Wendell Holmes Library →	namedAfter
Schoolroom Poets →	notableMember
Amelia Lee Jackson →	notableRelative
Edward Tyrrel Channing →	notableStudent
A Fable for Critics →	portrays
Amelia Lee Jackson →	spouse