Timothy Dwight V

Timothy Dwight V

Timothy Dwight V (born November 16, 1828 in Norwich , Connecticut , † May 26, 1916 in New Haven , Connecticut) was President of Yale University from 1886 to 1899 .

He was the son of James Dwight and his wife Susan Breed and the grandson of Yale President Timothy Dwight IV. His uncle Henry Edwin Dwight was a well-known author.

He successfully graduated from Yale University in 1849, four years after his admission, where he was also accepted into the Society of Skull & Bones . He was also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa .

Until he continued his studies at the universities in Bonn and Berlin in Germany, he served the college as a tutor from 1851 to 1855 . In July 1858 he returned to the United States and became professor of sacred literature at Yale. He supported the reorganization of the divinity school , was editor of the New Englander ( New Englander ) (1866-1874) and worked in the American committee for the revision of the Bible 1873-1885.

In 1886, he succeeded the retiring Noah Porter as President of Yale. He expanded the institution and made it legally so that from now on, instead of calling itself a college , Yale was called a university . In 1890 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1898 he retired.

Dwight is the author of Thoughts of and for the Inner Life (1899) and Memories of Yale Life and Men (1903).

literature

• F. Parsons: Six Men of Yale ; 1936, reprinted 1971.
• Obituary Records of Yale Graduates (pdf; 18.4 MB)