Transylvania University
| Transylvania University | |
|---|---|
| motto | In Lumine Illo Tradimus Lumen |
| founding | 1780 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Lexington , United States |
| president | R. Owen Williams |
| Students | circa 946 |
| Professors | 85 |
| Foundation assets | 174.6 million US dollars |
| Website | www.transy.edu |
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The Transylvania University (also Transylvania or Transy ) is a private, undergraduate degree programs in the liberal arts designed in Lexington , in the US state of Kentucky in the United States . She is a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools .
history
After approval by the Virginia General Assembly which was Transylvania University in 1780 founded. It became the first college west of what was then the Allegheny Mountains , as well as the 16th school of its kind in the country. In advance, the original school, which had its roots in a log cabin in Boyle County , moved to Lexington in 1789. The first location was a small building in what is now the Gratz Park Historic District , a district that is listed as historic by the NRHP . After a fire destroyed the school building in 1829, a new building was constructed under the supervision of Henry Clay in 1833, the Old Morrison Building , where the current school and campus now stands.
In the early years, the school's program included areas of medicine, law, theology and the arts.
Supporters of the school included a. Personalities like George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , John Adams or Aaron Burr .
Origin of name
Originating from Latin Transylvania ( "behind the forest" ), when the college was founded, it was chosen based on what was then the western and densely forested area of the state of Virginia , which is now part of Kentucky.
Well-known graduates
- David Rice Atchison (1807-1886), American politician
- Stephen F. Austin (1793–1836), American politician and founder of what is now the US state of Texas
- William T. Barry (1784–1835), American politician with the Democratic Republican Party
- Ned Beatty (born 1937), American actor
- James G. Birney (1792–1857), American abolitionist , politician and lawyer
- Francis Preston Blair senior (1791–1876), American journalist and politician
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. (1821–1875), American politician and major general in the Union Army during the Civil War
- John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875), an officer of the US Army , Vice President of the United States and US senator for the state of Kentucky
- Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826–1885), American politician, and from 1871 to 1873 the 20th governor of the US state of Missouri
- William Orlando Butler (1791–1880), American politician and Democratic candidate for the vice presidency, alongside Lewis Cass in the 1848 presidential election
- Alexander Campbell (1779–1857), American politician of the US state Ohio
- Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler (1898–1991), American politician and governor of the state of Kentucky
- Thomas James Churchill (1824–1905), American politician and major general in the Confederate Army
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810–1903), American politician and abolitionist
- Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), American politician, from 1861 to 1865 the first and only President of the Confederate States
- John Marshall Harlan (1833-1911), American judge at the Supreme Court of the United States
- Richard Mentor Johnson (1780–1850), American politician and the ninth Vice President of the United States
- Albert Sidney Johnston (1803–1862), officer in the US Army
- Beriah Magoffin (1815–1885), American politician and governor of the state of Kentucky
- Stevens Thomson Mason (1811–1843), American politician and first governor of the state of Michigan
- John Calvin McCoy (1811-1889), founding father of Kansas City
- Frank Daniel Mongiardo (* 1960), American doctor and lieutenant governor of the state of Kentucky
- John McCracken Robinson (1794–1843), US Senator for the State of Illinois
- James Sidney Rollins (1812–1888), American lawyer and politician
- Wilson Shannon (1803–1877), American politician
- James Speed (1812–1887), American lawyer, politician, and attorney general
See also
literature
- James P. Cousins: Horace Holley: Transylvania University and the Making of Liberal Education in the Early American Republic . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 2016, ISBN 978-0-8131-6857-9 (English).
- Ash Gobar, J. Hill Hamon: A lamp in the forest: Natural philosophy in Transylvania University, 1799-1859 . 1st edition. Transylvania University Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-9610162-2-7 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Transy at a Glance. In: www.transy.edu. Transylvania University, accessed February 23, 2020 .
- ^ Transylvania and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Transylvania University, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on February 23, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b A College Like No Other In a City Like No Other. In: www.transy.edu. Transylvania University, accessed February 23, 2020 .
Coordinates: 38 ° 3 ′ 8.6 ″ N , 84 ° 29 ′ 37.9 ″ W.