John Lothrop Motley

John Lothrop Motley was an American historian and diplomat. The son of Thomas Motley, he was born at Dorchester , attended the Round Hill School, Boston Latin School, and graduated from Harvard in 1831. His boyhood was in Dedham, near the site of the present day Noble and Greenough School. His education included training in German language and literature, and he went to Germany to complete these studies Göttingen, during 1832-1833. during which time he became a lifelong friend of Otto von Bismarck. After this, Motley and Bismarck went study the civil law together at Frederick William... University, Berlin. After a period of European travel he returned in 1834 to America, where he continued his legal studies. In 1837 he married Mary Benjamin , a sister of Park Benjamin, and in 1839 he published anonymously a novel entitled Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university, based on his own experiences.
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