George Handy Wailes

George Handy Wailes (born August 22, 1866 in Salisbury , Wicomico County , Maryland , United States , † July 12, 1967 ) was an American Presbyterian theologian .

Life

Family and education

George Handy Wailes, son of Ebenezer Leonard Wailes (1835–1896) and Annie Todd Wailes (1842–1916), turned to theology at Princeton University after completing compulsory schooling , and in 1894 received a Bachelor of Arts ( magna cum laude ), in 1896 he earned a Master of Arts degree , and in 1897 he graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he received his doctorate from Ursinus College in Collegeville in the US state of Pennsylvania to the Doctor of Divinity .

George Handy Wailes married Lucretia Mott Franklin (1871-1918) on October 8, 1902. He died on August 12, 1967, five weeks before he would turn 101. He found his final resting place next to his wife in Parsons Cemetery in Salisbury.

Professional background

George Handy Wailes was ordained to the pastoral ministry of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1897 . In the same year Wailes was given the pastor's position at Scots Church in Philadelphia , from which he resigned in 1908. He was then appointed Professor of English Bible and Greek Language at Ursinus College. In 1919 he moved to the Reformed Episcopal Theological Seminary in Blue Bell in the US state of Pennsylvania as Professor of Exegetical Theology. In 1926 he followed a call as Professor of Biblical Languages ​​and English Bible at Temple University in Philadelphia, in 1949 he retired . In addition, George Handy Wailes was Visiting Professor of Hebrew at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1928 to 1937 .

Wailes, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society , was one of the leading Presbyterian theologians and biblical scholars in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.

publication

• with G. Hall Todd: Charge to Rev. G. Hall Todd: Arch Street Presbyterian church, March 16, 1944 .... 1944

literature

• Who's who in the Clergy: Volume I. JC Schwarz, New York, 1935, p. 1144.
• Religious Leaders of America: Volume II. JC Schwarz, New York, 1941, p. 1082.
• Robert Cecil Cook (Ed.): Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States: Volume XXI. Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1963, p. 1424.
• Who Was Who in America With world Notables: Volume IV, 1961-1968. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 975.

Web links

• George Handy Wailes in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• George Handy Wailes on the Prabook.org website