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Bucke, Richard Maurice(Richard)
Born: 1837 AD
Died: 1902 AD, at 65 years of age.
Nationality: Canadian
Categories: Psychiatrist, Psychologist
Died: 1902 AD, at 65 years of age.
Nationality: Canadian
Categories: Psychiatrist, Psychologist
1837 - Bucke was born near London, Ontario to quite-literate English immigrant parents.
1858 - Bucke enrolled in McGill University's medical school in Montreal, where he delivered a distinguished thesis.
1865 - Bucke married Jessie Gurd. The couple had seven children.
1877 - Bucke was appointed head of a provincial Asylum for the Insane in London, Ontario, a post he held for nearly the remainder of his life.
- He read, and was deeply impressed by, Leaves of Grass by American poet Walt Whitman.
1879 - Bucke developed a theory of human intellectual and emotional evolution, and, besides publishing and delivering professional papers, wrote a book on his theory titled Man's Moral Nature, published.
1882 - Bucke was elected to the English Literature Section of the Royal Society of Canada.
1883 - He met Whitman, developed a lasting friendship, and published a biography of the poet.
1901 - Bucke's career was a book that he researched and wrote over many years, Cosmic Consciousness, published the year before his death.
1902 - Richard Bucke died.
1858 - Bucke enrolled in McGill University's medical school in Montreal, where he delivered a distinguished thesis.
1865 - Bucke married Jessie Gurd. The couple had seven children.
1877 - Bucke was appointed head of a provincial Asylum for the Insane in London, Ontario, a post he held for nearly the remainder of his life.
- He read, and was deeply impressed by, Leaves of Grass by American poet Walt Whitman.
1879 - Bucke developed a theory of human intellectual and emotional evolution, and, besides publishing and delivering professional papers, wrote a book on his theory titled Man's Moral Nature, published.
1882 - Bucke was elected to the English Literature Section of the Royal Society of Canada.
1883 - He met Whitman, developed a lasting friendship, and published a biography of the poet.
1901 - Bucke's career was a book that he researched and wrote over many years, Cosmic Consciousness, published the year before his death.
1902 - Richard Bucke died.
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