THAYER, Alexander Wheelock
(*1817)> WRITER
THAYER (Alexander Wheelock). American writer, South Natick, near Boston, Mass., Oct. 22, 1817. Educated at Harvard University. Travelled in Germany collecting materials for his Life of Beethoven from 1854. U. S. Consul at Trieste. Autor of Signor Masoni, and other Papers of the late J. Brown, Berlin, 1862; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leben, Berlin, 1866, etc., 3 vols published, but work not yet completed.