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James Luce Kingsley (August 28, 1778 – August 31, 1852) was an American classical and biblical scholar.
James Luce Kingsley (August 28, 1778 – August 31, 1852) was an American classical and biblical scholar.
Biography
Born inWindham, Connecticut
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, Kingsley was educated at Williams and Yale
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, where he was graduated in 1799. He afterward taught for two years, first in Wethersfield, Connecticut
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and then in Windham, and in 1801 became a tutor at Yale. In 1805 he was appointed to the newly established professorship of Hebrew
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, Greek
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, and Latin
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in there. Kingsley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1825. He was relieved of a part of his duties in 1831, when a separate professorship of Greek was established, and of another part in 1835, when a professorship of sacred literature was founded, but he continued to instruct in Latin until he resigned in 1851. Kingsley died in New Haven, Connecticut
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.
Work
As a writer of English, Yale president Timothy Dwight called him the “AmericanAddison
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”; and Yale president Woolsey said of him, “I doubt if any American scholar has ever surpassed him in Latin style.” He published a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, April 25, 1838; editions of Tacitus (Philadelphia), and Cicero, ''De Oratore'' (New York); and was the author of a history of Yale college in the ''American Quarterly Register'' (1835); a life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale college, in Sparks's series “American Biography.”
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References
*Further reading
*Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman (; July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908) was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and subsequently served as the second president of the University ...
wrote a sketch of his life. ()
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