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| name = Theodore Dwight Woolsey | image = Theodore Dwight Woolsey portrait.jpg | order = 10th | title = President of Yale University | term_start = 1846 | term_end = 1871 | predecessor = Jeremiah Day | successor = Noah Porter | birth_date = October 31, 1801 | birth_place = New York City, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|1889|7|1|1801|10|31}} | death_place = New Haven, Connecticut }} Theodore Dwight Woolsey (October 31, 1801 – July 1, 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871.[1]{{rp|445}} BiographyTheodore Dwight Woolsey was born October 31, 1801 in New York City. His mother was Elizabeth Dwight (1772–1813) and father was William Walton Woolsey (1766–1839).[2] He graduated from Yale College in 1820, spent a year in legal study in Philadelphia, and two years of the study of theology at Princeton. For some time, he was a tutor at Yale, then went abroad to study Greek in Leipzig, Bonn, and Berlin. From 1831 to 1846 he was professor of Greek at Yale. His mother's brother Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) had been president of Yale 1795–1817. Jeremiah Day was the only president Yale had in between the family members. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1845.[3] After being chosen as president of Yale, he instructed students of history, political economy, political science, and especially international law. He resigned as president of Yale in 1871. After Noah Porter served as president, the office was back in the family as his cousin once removed Timothy Dwight V (1828–1916), was selected in 1886.[1] During his 25 years as president, Yale advanced in wealth and influence and two new departments, the Scientific School and the School of Fine Arts, were begun. Woolsey was one of the founders of the New Englander, chairman of the American commission for the revision of the Authorized Version of the Bible, president of the World's Evangelical Alliance at its international meeting in New York, a lifelong member and at one time president of the American Oriental Society, and a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. Among his writings and publications are these: Editions of the Alcestis of Euripides (1834), of the Antigone of Sophocles (1835), of the Prometheus of Æschylus (1837), of the Electra of Sophocles (1837), and of the Gorgias of Plato (1843); an edition of Lieber's Civil liberty and Self Government, and:
Family and legacyDwight married twice and had a total of 13 children. On September 5, 1833 he married Martha Salisbury, who was born November 30, 1812 and died November 3, 1852. Their children were:[2]
On September 6, 1854 he married Sarah Sears Prichard, who was born March 3, 1824 and died in 1900. Their children were:
Dwight died July 1, 1889 in New Haven.[4] Dwight was a descendant of George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam, and Thomas Cornell (settler)[5] Woolsey Hall at Yale, completed in 1901, and Woolsey Street in New Haven, Connecticut are named in his honor. The statue erected in his memory, now displayed on Yale's Old Campus, has a golden toe from being rubbed for good luck. See also
References1. ^1 {{cite book |title= Yale, Her Campus, Class-rooms, and Athletics |authors= Lewis Sheldon Welch and Walter Camp |year= 1899 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=V8wWAAAAIAAJ |location= Boston |publisher= L. C. Page and Company |oclc= 2191518 }} 2. ^1 {{cite book |author=Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight |title= The history of the descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass |volume= 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLfMU4yd1FYC&pg=PA291 |year=1874 |publisher=J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders |pages= 250, 257–259 }} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter W|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=22 April 2011}} 4. ^{{cite book |author= Timothy Dwight |title= The New Englander and Yale review |volume= 51 |chapter= Theodore Dwight Woolsey |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=eJlMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA143 |date= August 1889 |publisher=J|pages= 143–153 |authorlink= Timothy Dwight V }} 5. ^Cornell, Thomas Clapp [https://books.google.com/books?id=QhY5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA359&dq=Melancthon+Taylor+Woolsey+%22George+Woolsey%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HP1-Us7xLveo4AP4-YDgAg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Melancthon%20Taylor%20Woolsey%20%22George%20Woolsey%22&f=false Adam and Anne Mott: their ancestors and their descendants]. A.V. Haight, 1890 Retrieved November 10, 2013
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