James Hadley (scholar)
James Hadley | |
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Daguerrotype of Hadley, c. 1850 | |
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Died | November 14, 1872 | (aged 51)
Alma mater | Yale College |
Occupation(s) | Philologist, professor |
Employer | Yale College |
Spouse | Anne Loring Twining |
Children | Arthur Twining Hadley |
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James Hadley (March 30, 1821 – November 14, 1872) was an American
Biography
Hadley was born in Fairfield, New York, where his father was professor of chemistry at Fairfield Medical College.[1] At the age of nine, a knee injury left him lame for life.[2] Hadley received his early instruction at the Fairfield Academy, and also acquired some scientific knowledge from his father. He became assistant at the Academy, and later graduated from Yale College in 1842, having entered the junior class in 1840. Hadley was then a resident graduate at Yale for a year, after which he entered Yale's theological seminary, where he spent two years.[3]
From April to September 1845, Hadley was a tutor at Middlebury College.[3] He was a tutor at Yale in 1845–1848, an assistant professor of Greek in 1848–1851, and a professor of Greek, succeeding President Woolsey, from 1851 until his death in New Haven, Connecticut.[1][4]
As an undergraduate, Hadley had proven an able mathematician, but the influence of
Hadley was well versed in civil law. His course of lectures on civil law was included in the curriculum of the Yale Law School, and was likewise delivered at Harvard.[3] Hadley was a member of the American Committee for the revision of the New Testament, and was president of the American Oriental Society (1871–1872).[2][4]
Work
Hadley most original written work was an essay on Greek accent, published in a German version in
In 1951, Hadley's diary from 1846 to 1852 was published by Yale University Press.
Family
On August 13, 1851, Hadley married Anne Loring Twining, the daughter of Stephen Twining[1] and his wife, née Almira Catlin.[5] They became the parents of Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University from 1899-1921.[5]
James Hadley's brother,
Notes
- ^ a b c Yale Obituary Record 1872-1873, "James Hadley", p. 99.
- ^ a b c Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
- ^ a b c d e Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hadley, James". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 799. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ a b Yale Obituary Record 1929-1930, "Arthur Twining Hadley", pp. 52-57.
References
- Memorial by Noah Porter in The New Englander, vol. xxxii. (January 1873), pp. 35–55
- Sketch by his son, Arthur Twining Hadley, in Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. v. (1903), pp. 247–254.
External links
- James Hadley at the Database of Classical Scholars
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
- Hadley, James (1869–70). "On the Nature and Theory of the Greek Accent" Transactions of the American Philological Association (1869-1896), Vol. 1 (1869-1870), pp. 1–19.