Theodore Dwight Woolsey - New Haven, CT
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The grave of author and 10th President of Yale College Theodore Dwight Woolsey is located in Grove Street Cemetery at 227 Grove Street, New Haven, CT.
Waymark Code: WM10EH8
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2019
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Theodore Dwight Woolsey is interred in a red granite tomb which is inscribed on the long side:
IN MEMORY OF
THEODORE DWIGHT WOOLSEY
TENTH PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE
The ends of the tomb are inscribed:
BORN IN NEW YORK
OCTOBER 31, 1801
PROFESSOR OF GREEK
IN YALE COLLEGE
PRESIDENT 1846-1871
DIED IN NEW HAVEN
JULY 1, 1889
and
FOR HE LOOKED FOR
THE CITY WHICH HATH
THE FOUNDATIONS
WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER
IS GOD
Theodore Dwight Woolsey graduated from Yale College in 1820 and studied law before studying theology at Princeton. He then went to Germany to study Greek before becoming a professor of Greek at Yale College from 1831 to 1846.
Between 1846 and 1871 served as the 10th president of Yale College. During his tenure the college grew in both wealth and statue. Two new schools were started : the Scientific School and the School of Fine Arts.
Woolsey excelled in academic scholarship. He was chairman of the American commission for the revision of the Authorized Version of the Bible, president of the World's Evangelical Alliance, president of the American Oriental Society, and a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. He was a prolific writer. Among his writings and publications include:
The Alcestis of Euripides, with notes (1834)
The Antigone of Sophocles, with notes (1835)
The Prometheus of Æschylus, with notes (1837)
The Electra of Sophocles, with notes (1837)
The Gorgias of Plato, with notes (1843)
Introduction to the study of International Law (1860)
Essays on Divorce and Divorce Legislation (1869)
Religion of the Present and Future, a collections of sermons (1871)
Political Science (1877)
Communism and Socialism (1880)
Eros and Other Poems (1880)
Helpful Thoughts for Young Men (1882)