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George Bancroft: North German
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George Bancroft's rugged physique and charismatic personality made him ideal for roles in Westerns and in gangster movies. His credits in Western films include the silent movies "The Code of the West" (1925) and "Pony Express" (1925). Then, starting in 1929, he was featured in "talkies" such as "Texas" (1941), "When the Daltons Rode" (1940), "Northwest Mounted Police" (1940), and "Stagecoach"(1939).
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In 1820, Mr. Bancroft, not yet quite twenty years of age, received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from this old and renowned university, and proceeded to Berlin, where he became a pupil of Wolf, Schleiermacher and Hegel. Here, too, he formed an intimate acquaintance with Wilhelm von Humboldt, Savigny, Lappenberg, Varnhagen von Ense, and other eminent German scholars. In 1821 he made a tour of Europe, spending some time at Dresden, Jena (where he had already become acquainted with Goethe), Heidelberg, where be made the acquaintance of Schlosser, Paris, where he became intimate with Cousin, Alexander von Humboldt, and Benjamin Constant; visited England for a month, and then passed by way of Switzerland to Italy, forming an acquaintance with Manzoni, at Milan, and a lifelong intimacy with Bunsen and Niebuhr at Rome.
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Named as a special minister to England, Bancroft successfully negotiated settlement of boundary issues in the northwest corner of the nation. He returned to New York in 1849 where he turned his attention fully to his
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