Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817 - 1897)

Alexander Wheelock Thayer (b. South Natick, Massachusetts, U.S., 22 October 1817, d. Trieste, Italy, 15 July 1897), was a librarian and journalist who became the author of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, still after many updatings regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.