【富兰克林简介】本杰明富兰克林简介(英文)

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【答案】 Benjamin Franklin
　　was born in Milk Street, Boston, on
　　January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who
　　married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest
　　son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to
　　his brother James, a printer, who published the New England Courant.
　　To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its
　　nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going
　　first to New York, and thence to Philadelphia, where he arrived in October,
　　1723. He soon obtained work as a printer, but after a few months he was
　　induced by Governor Keith to go to London, where, finding Keith's
　　promises empty, he again worked as a positor till he was brought back
　　to Philadelphia by a merchant named Denman, who gave him a position in
　　his business. On Denman's death he returned to his former trade, and
　　shortly set up a printing house of his own from which he published The
　　Pennsylvania Gazette, to which he contributed many essays, and which
　　he made a medium for agitating a variety of local reforms. In 1732 he
　　began to issue his famous Poor Richard's Almanac for the enrichment of
　　which he borrowed or posed those pithy utterances of worldly wisdom
　　which are the basis of a large part of his popular reputation. In 1758, the
　　year in which he ceases writing for the Almanac, he printed in it Father
　　Abraham's Sermon, now regarded as the most famous piece of literature
　　produced in Colonial America.
　　Meantime Franklin was concerning himself more and more with
　　public affairs. He set forth a scheme for an Academy, which was taken up
　　later and finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he
　　founded an American Philosophical Society for the purpose of enabling
　　scientific men to municate their discoveries to one another. He himself
　　had already begun his electrical researches, which, with other scientific
　　inquiries, he called on in the intervals of money-making and politics to the
　　end of his life. In 1748 he sold his business in order to get leisure for study,
　　having now acquired parative wealth; and in a few years he had made
　　discoveries that gave him a reputation with the learned throughout Europe.