Brantz Mayer

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Brantz Mayer

1809–1879

A Baltimore lawyer turned historian, he helped preserve Maryland’s past and wrote vivid books shaped by his travels and diplomatic service in Mexico.

6 Audiobooks

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

by Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer

Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania

Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania

by Brantz Mayer

History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1

History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1

by Brantz Mayer

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 2 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 2 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

by Brantz Mayer

Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D.

Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D.

by Brantz Mayer

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican, Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time.

by Brantz Mayer

About the author

Born in Baltimore on September 27, 1809, Brantz Mayer became a lawyer, writer, and historian with a strong interest in public life and the past. Sources on his career consistently note that he studied law, was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1829, and went on to build a reputation as a man of letters as well as a civic-minded scholar.

Mayer is especially remembered for his connection to Mexico and to Maryland history. He served as secretary of the United States legation to Mexico in the early 1840s, and his experiences there informed books including Mexico as it Was and as it Is. In 1844, he helped found the Maryland Historical Society, an institution created to collect and preserve the state’s historical records.

Alongside his legal and historical work, he published widely on history, biography, and culture. Brantz Mayer died in Baltimore in 1879; sources differ on the exact day reported, so it is safest to say he died that year at age 69.