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Theodore Dwight Woolsey (31 October 1801 – 1 July 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871. [1] : 445. Biography. Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born 31 October 1801 in New York City. His mother was Elizabeth Dwight (1772–1813) and father was William Walton Woolsey (1766–1839). [2] .
16 de abr. de 2024 · Theodore Dwight Woolsey was an American educator and scholar, president of Yale (1846–71), whose many innovations later became common in institutions of higher learning. Woolsey graduated as head of his class at Yale in 1820, and in 1831 he was appointed professor of Greek there.
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Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), American academic, author and President of Yale College (1846-1871).
In the mid-nineteenth century, President Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889) took some important steps toward making Yale more global. Woolsey’s predecessors Timothy Dwight (in office from 1795 to 1817), and Jeremiah Day (1817–1846), inspired Yale-educated missionaries to preach and teach in Hawaii, Asia, and Africa.
THEODOEE DWIGHT WOOLSEY.* Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born in the city of New York, October 31, 1801. Both his parents were of English descent. His father, a prominent and successful merchant, sprung from a family which was early settled on Long Island. His mother, a sister of the first President Dwight, was a granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards.
Theodore Dwight Woolsey was one of Yale's greatest teachers of Greek before being elevated to the presidency of Yale in 1846. He was graduated as valedictorian from Yale, spent one year reading the law in Philadelphia, another two studying theology, then following a brief tutorship, during which he concluded his theological work, left to study ...
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight. WOODS, LEONARD, JR.: Congregationalist and educator; b. in Newbury, Mass., Nov. 24, 1807; d. in Boston Dec. 24, 1878.
