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Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New York City. Located on land donated by the "Bard of Chelsea" himself, the seminary still stands today on Ninth Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, in an area known as Chelsea Square. Moore's connection with that institution continued for over twenty-five years. He is thought to be the author of the Christmas poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", which later became famous as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", but debate continues as to who really wrote it. ==Life and career== Moore was born on July 15, 1779 in New York City to Bishop Benjamin Moore – who headed the Episcopal Diocese of New York, and was twice the president of Columbia College〔, pp.51-52〕 – and Charity Clarke, whose father, Major Thomas Clarke, owned the Manhattan estate "Chelsea" where Moore was born. This estate would later pass to Charity Clarke and then to Moore, but he grew up in the Moore family residence in Elmhurst, Queens.〔(A Woman Ready to Fight ), New York Newsday, by George DeWan〕 He was a graduate of Columbia College (1798), where he earned both his B.A. and his M.A.. One of Moore's earliest known works was an anonymous pro-Federalist pamphlet published prior to the 1804 presidential election, attacking the religious views of Thomas Jefferson (the incumbent president and Democratic-Republican candidate).〔Collins, Paul (2006).("Jefferson's Lump of Coal" ) – ''The New York Times'', 24 December 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2013.〕 His polemic, titled in full ''Observations upon Certain Passages in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, which Appear to Have a Tendency to Subvert Religion, and Establish a False Philosophy'', focused on Jefferson's ''Notes on the State of Virginia'' (1785), which Moore concluded was an "instrument of infidelity".〔Dickinson W. Adams (ed.), ''Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus"'' (Princeton University Press, 1983), p. 12, citing Clement C. Moore, ''Observations upon Certain Passages in Mr. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, which Appear to Have a Tendency to Subvert Religion, and Establish a False Philosophy'' (New York, 1804), p. 29.〕 In 1820, Moore helped Trinity Church organize a new parish church, St. Lukes in the Fields, on Hudson Street,〔Burrows and Wallace, p.447〕 He later gave 66 tracts of land – his apple orchard – to the Episcopal Diocese of New York to be the site of the General Theological Seminary. Moore had written a Hebrew lexicon,〔 and was made professor of Biblical learning at the Seminary, a post that he held until 1850.〔New International Encyclopedia〕 Despite his objections to the Commissioner's Plan of 1811, which ran the new Ninth Avenue through the middle of his estate, Moore began the development of Chelsea with the help of James N. Wells, dividing it up into lots along Ninth Avenue and selling them to well-heeled New Yorkers.〔 Covenants in the deeds of sale specified what could be built on the land – stables, manufacturing and commercial uses were forbidden – as well as architectural details of the buildings.〔Regier, Hilda. "Chelsea" in , p.209〕 From 1840 to 1850, he was a board member of the New York Institution for the Blind at 34th Street and Ninth Avenue, which is now the New York Institute for Special Education. He compiled a ''Hebrew and English Lexicon'' (1809), and published a collection of poems (1844). Upon his death in 1863 at his summer residence in Newport, Rhode Island, his funeral was held in Trinity Church, Newport, where he had owned a pew. Then his body was interred in the cemetery at St. Luke in the Fields. On November 29, 1899, his body was reinterred in Trinity Church Cemetery in New York. Moore opposed the abolition of slavery, and owned several slaves during his lifetime.〔Samuel W. Patterson, ''The Poet of Christmas Eve: A Life of Clement Clarke Moore, 1779-1863,'' (New York: Morehouse-Gorman Co, 1956)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clement Clarke Moore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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