Occupation Lawyer, poet Nationality American | Name John Sutermeister Role Poet | |
Born March 16, 1803
Curacao ( 1803-03-16 ) Died January 16, 1826, New York, United States | ||
John Rudolph Sutermeister (Curaçao, March 16, 1803 – New York City, January 16, 1826), was an American jurist and poet.
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Life
Sutermeister was baptized at a Lutheran church in Curaçao, his birthplace, 17 April 1803. Upon arrival in Rhinebeck around 1812 he studied at the Lutheran church. In 1817 he was sent to boarding school in Cooperstown, New York. After studying alternately at the Rhinebeck Hartwick Academy, he studied law at Rhinebeck. In 1824 he began a tour through the western part of the state of New York to find a suitable location to establish itself as a lawyer. He settled in the same year in Syracuse, New York. However, the legal profession did not suit him and he then worked briefly as editor of the Syracuse Gazette. In July 1825 he left Syracuse to move to New York City where his friends had found a suitable and lucrative position for him. However, this was short-lived because six months later he died.
John made himself a poet deserving in his short life.
Work
In 1824 Sutermeister wrote an Ode to Linnæus, which was also published in the American Farmer
The same year, he wrote the poem To a Humming Bird, which was published in John Keese's The Poets of America as well as in Anthony Benezet Cleveland's Studies in Poetry and Prose
A year later, he wrote The Garden; his poems were published as Minor Poems (including A Contrasted Picture, The Lament (or A Lament), Faded Hours (The Careless Lover's Adieu) and in the Syracuse Gazette.