Editing George Bancroft (section)

===Education===
Bancroft began his education at [[Phillips Exeter Academy]].

He entered [[Harvard College]] at thirteen years of age and graduated with the Class of 1817.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/lisle/dial/bancroft.html |title=George Bancroft |publisher=Xroads.virginia.edu |access-date=2014-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108005925/http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Lisle/dial/bancroft.html |archive-date=November 8, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

After Harvard, Bancroft's father sent him abroad to study in Germany, where he studied at the universities of Göttingen, and Berlin. At Göttingen, he studied [[Plato]] with [[Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren]], history with Heeren and [[Gottlieb Jakob Planck]], and languages{{efn|Arabic, Hebrew, and New Testament Greek}} and scripture interpretation with Albert Eichhorn<!-- the linked [[Albert Eichhorn]] was born in 1856 -->, natural science with [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]], German literature with [[Georg Friedrich Benecke]], French and Italian literature with Artaud and Bunsen, and classics with [[Georg Ludolf Dissen]]. In 1820, he received his doctorate from the [[University of Göttingen]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

Bancroft capped off his education with a European tour, in the course of which he sought out almost every distinguished man in the European world of letters, science and art, including [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]], [[Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher]], [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], [[George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron|Lord Byron]], [[Barthold Georg Niebuhr]], [[Christian Charles Josias Bunsen]], [[Friedrich Carl von Savigny]], [[Varnhagen von Ense]], [[Victor Cousin]], [[Benjamin Constant]] and [[Alessandro Manzoni]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}