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Theodore Dwight Woolsey (October 31, 1801 – July 1, 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871. ==Biography== Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born October 31, 1801 in New York City. His mother was Elizabeth Dwight (1772–1813) and father was William Walton Woolsey (1766–1839). He graduated from Yale College in 1820, spent a year in legal study in Philadelphia, and two years of the study of theology at Princeton. For some time, he was a tutor at Yale, then went abroad to study Greek in Leipzig, Bonn, and Berlin. From 1831 to 1846 he was professor of Greek at Yale. His mother's brother Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) had been president of Yale 1795–1817. Jeremiah Day was the only president Yale had in between the family members. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1845.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf )〕 After being chosen as president of Yale, he instructed students of history, political economy, political science, and especially international law. He resigned as president of Yale in 1871. After Noah Porter served as president, the office was back in the family as his cousin once removed Timothy Dwight V (1828–1916), was selected in 1886.〔 During his 25 years as president, Yale advanced in wealth and influence and two new departments, the Scientific School and the School of Fine Arts, were begun. Woolsey was one of the founders of the ''New Englander'', chairman of the American commission for the revision of the Authorized Version of the Bible, president of the World's Evangelical Alliance at its international meeting in New York, a lifelong member and at one time president of the American Oriental Society, and a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. Among his writings and publications are these: Editions of the ''Alcestis'' of Euripides (1834), of the ''Antigone'' of Sophocles (1835), of the ''Prometheus'' of Æschylus (1837), of the ''Electra'' of Sophocles (1837), and of the ''Gorgias'' of Plato (1843); an edition of Lieber's ''Civil liberty and Self Government'', and: * ''Introduction to the study of International Law'' (1860, many times republished) * ''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) * ''Helpful Thoughts for Young Men'' (1882) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theodore Dwight Woolsey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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