George Ripley

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Unitarian minister human journalist social reformer transcendentalist

George Ripley was a 19th-century American transcendentalist, social reformer, and journalist best known for founding the utopian community Brook Farm and contributing to the Transcendentalist movement.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Unitarian minister → human → journalist → social reformer → transcendentalist →
causeOfDeath	pneumonia →
coEditorOf	The New American Cyclopaedia →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1802-10-03 →
dateOfDeath	1880-07-04 →
educatedAt	Harvard College → Harvard Divinity School →
employer	New York Tribune →
familyName	Ripley →
founded	Brook Farm →
genre	literary criticism → theological writing →
givenName	George →
influencedBy	German idealist philosophy → Ralph Waldo Emerson → William Ellery Channing →
knownFor	founding the Brook Farm utopian community → leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	Transcendental Club →
movement	Transcendentalism →
name	George Ripley →
notableWork	Brook Farm → The New American Cyclopaedia →
occupation	clergyman → journalist → literary critic →
participantIn	19th-century American social reform movements → American Transcendentalist movement →
placeOfBirth	Greenfield, Massachusetts →
placeOfDeath	New York City →
positionHeld	literary critic at the New York Tribune →
religion	Unitarianism →
residence	Boston, Massachusetts → New York City → West Roxbury, Massachusetts →
sexOrGender	male →
socialReformFocus	communal living → education reform → labor reform →
spouse	Sophia Willard Dana Ripley →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Transcendentalism →	hasKeyFigure
Transcendental Club →	hasMember
George Ripley →	name