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Robinson, Stuart

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 14, 1814, in Ireland. He is a presbyterian clergyman of prominence in Louisville; and the author of Discourses of Redemption; and The Church of God. He died Oct. 5, 1881, in Louisville, Ky.

ROBINSON, MRS. THERESE ALBER- TINE LOUISE [VON JAKOB]-Talviauthor, was born in 1797 in Georgia. She was an able and learned author who wrote both in English and German, using the pseudonym Talvi in the latter case.

She was the author of Characteristik der Volkslieder germanischen Nationen; Die Unechtheit der Lieder Ossians; Aus der Geschichte der ersten Ansiedelungen in den Vereinigten Staaten; Die Colonisation von New England; Fifteen Years, a Picture from the Last Century; Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations. She also wrote a number of stories which her daughter translated from the German, including Psyche; Heloise; Life's Discipline; and The Exiles. She died in 1869.

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