Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (born May 5, 1809 in Sheffield , Massachusetts , † April 27, 1889 in New York City ) was an American mathematician , cartographer and scientist.
Frederick Barnard studied at Yale University with the degree in 1828. He was then initially a tutor at Yale. When he lost his hearing due to a hereditary disease, he became a teacher at the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford and then from 1832 a teacher at the New York Institute for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb . From 1838 he was a professor of mathematics and physics (then called Natural Philosophy) and from 1848 for chemistry and natural history at the University of Alabama . He also taught English literature there.
In 1856 he was ordained as a Deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church and became Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Mississippi . From 1856 he was chancellor of the university, but went with the outbreak of the civil war as a supporter of the Union in the north to Washington, DC , where he was busy with astronomical and geodetic work; among other things, he oversaw the publication of maps for the US Coast Survey. In 1864 he succeeded Charles King as President of Columbia College , later Columbia University , which he remained until 1888.
He was a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1863 , and President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1866 . In 1871 he became an elected member of the American Philosophical Society . With Arnold Henry Guyot he was editor of Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia from 1876.
His brother, John G. Barnard, was the director of the United States Military Academy and a general in the Civil War.
Fonts
- Treatise on Arithmetic (1830)
- Analytical Grammar with Symbolic Illustration (1836)
- Letters on Collegiate Government (1855)
- History of the United States Coast Survey (1857)
- Recent Progress in Science (1869)
- The Metric System (1871)
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| SURNAME | Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician, cartographer, and natural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sheffield , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1889 |
| Place of death | New York City |