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Timothy Dwight V (November 16, 1828 – May 26, 1916) was an American academic, educator, Congregational minister, and President of Yale University (1886–1898). [1] During his years as the school's president, Yale's schools first organized as a university.
Timothy Dwight V (November 16, 1828 – May 26, 1916) was an American academic, educator, Congregational minister, and President of Yale University (1886–1898). [1] During his years as the school's president, Yale's schools first organized as a university.
Timothy Dwight was an American educator, theologian, and poet who had a strong instructive influence during his time. Educated by his mother, a daughter of the preacher Jonathan Edwards, Dwight entered Yale at age 13 and was graduated in 1769.
In 1878, Yale incorporated as a university, and incumbent Timothy Dwight V became the last president of the college and the first of Yale University. The first president not ordained as a minister was Arthur Twining Hadley, inaugurated in 1899; no ordained person has held the office since.
The second Yale president who was named Timothy Dwight was also the last minister to serve in the office (1886–99). Today this is the distinction for which Timothy Dwight the Younger—usually overshadowed by his better-known namesake, grandfather, and predecessor—is often remembered.
Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752 – January 11, 1817) was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College (1795–1817). [1] Early life. Timothy Dwight was born May 14, 1752, in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Biography. Dwight was born in Norwich, Connecticut, the son of James Dwight, whose father, Timothy Dwight IV, served as president of Yale College from 1795 to 1817.
Few men have poured out as much for Yale as did Timothy Dwight. He was a prodigious scholar, a brilliant educator, and an educational reformer far ahead of his time. He was the chief architect of Yale as a university.
May 23, 2018 · Timothy Dwight. Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), an American Congregational minister, was president of Yale College and New England's leading religious politician. Timothy Dwight was born in Northhampton, Mass., into one of New England's most extraordinary families on May 14, 1752. His maternal grandfather was the famed theologian Jonathan Edwards.
Timothy Dwight (b. Northampton, MA, 1752; d. Northampton, MA, 1752; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1817) was a grandson of Jonathan Edwards who became a Congregationalist pastor, a Revolutionary War army chaplain, a tutor and professor at Yale College, and president of Yale from 1795 to 1817.
