| 词条 | Philip Lindsley |
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| name =Philip Lindsley | image = Phillip_lindsley_medium.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1786 | birth_place = Basking Ridge, New Jersey | death_date = {{death year and age|1855|1786}} | death_place = | known_for = | education = | employer = | occupation =Preacher, educator, classicist | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Margaret Lawrence Lindsley Mary Ann Myers Lindsley | children = Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley John Berrien Lindsley | parents = | relatives =Nathaniel Lawrence (father-in-law) | box_width = }} Philip Lindsley (1786 – 1855) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and classicist. He served as the acting president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) from 1822 to 1824, and as the first president of the now-defunct University of Nashville from 1824 to 1850. Early lifePhilip Lindsley was born in 1786 in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.[1][2][3] He was educated in private academies and graduated from the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University.[1] CareerHe started teaching Latin and Greek at Princeton University in 1808.[1][3] By 1813, he became Professor of Languages, Librarian, Inspector (Dean), and secretary of the Board of Trustees.[1] He then served as its Vice President from 1817 to 1822, and as its Acting President from 1822 to 1824.[1][2][4] However, he declined its presidency, as well as the presidencies of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.[4][5] In December 1824, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to take up the presidency of Cumberland College.[1][4][5] Among his first acts as president was to request that its name be changed to the University of Nashville, a change that took effect about a year after his arrival.[4][5] He hired respected scholars as faculty in fields including classics, foreign languages, mathematics, and geology.[1] At the same time, he actively recruited students.[1] He also suggested starting a medical school.[4] He resigned his position in 1850, when the university suspended operations as a result of the cholera epidemic which led to low enrollment and to financial difficulties.[4] His son, John Berrien Lindsley, became the university's president when it reopened in 1855.[4] After leaving the University of Nashville, he taught Ecclesiastical Polity and Biblical Archaeology at New Albany Theological Seminary in New Albany, Indiana (now the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago).[1][2] His ideas and ambitions regarding education had a lasting impact.[1] He promoted the Nashville city slogan "Athens of the South", a sobriquet coined by Leroy J. Halsey (1812-1896) that reflected his goal of making the University of Nashville into a nationally recognized institution.[1][3] He was an advocate for better education at all levels, becoming one of the first academics to urge the formal training of school teachers in normal schools.[1] He saw education as, "a great equalizer, a special right for the poor."[6] Additionally, in an essay entitled Thoughts on Slavery, he wrote, "Our slaves must be emancipated."[6] In the 1830s he published a pamphlet that argued that all children should be offered a broad academic education, including Greek, Latin, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, geography, and English.[1] Personal lifeHe married Margaret Lawrence Lindsley, the daughter of Nathaniel Lawrence, who was New York Attorney General from 1792 to 1795.[1][2] The couple had three sons:
Margaret Lindsley died in 1845. In 1849, Lindsley married Mary Ann Myers, widow of Elias Myers, the founder of New Albany Theological Seminary.[1] DeathHe died in 1855.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sara Harwell, Philip Lindsley, The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, December 25, 2009. {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lindsley, Philip}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 Lindsley Family Papers, Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives 3. ^1 2 Christine M. Kreyling, Wesley Paine, Charles W. Warterfield, Susan Ford Wiltshire, Classical Nashville: Athens of the South, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996, p. xiii 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Vanderbilt University: Historical Background of Peabody College 5. ^1 2 James F. Davidson, [https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1490123?uid=3737536&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21103560436411 Philip Lindsley: The Teacher as Prophet], Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 41, No. 6, May, 1964 6. ^1 Christine M. Kreyling, Wesley Paine, Charles W. Warterfield, Susan Ford Wiltshire, Classical Nashville: Athens of the South, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996, p. 8 7. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35454430 FindAGrave: Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley] 8. ^1 2 Elijah Embree Hoss, William B. Reese, History of Nashville, Tenn., Nashville, Tennessee: C. Elder, 1890, p. 617 [https://books.google.com/books?id=huoTAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Adrian+Van+Sinderen+Lindsley%22&dq=%22Adrian+Van+Sinderen+Lindsley%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YbcyU7atBoG2kgXv9YCoAQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwATgK] 9. ^[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99001328 FindAGrave: Nathaniel Lawrence Lindsley, LLD] 11 : 1786 births|1855 deaths|People from Bernards Township, New Jersey|People from Nashville, Tennessee|Princeton University alumni|Princeton University faculty|American Presbyterians|Latinists|Scholars of Ancient Greek|Christian scholars|American abolitionists |
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