Woolsey, THEODORE DWIGHT

Woolsey, THEODORE DWIGHT, was born at New York, 31st October 1801, graduated at Yale in 1820, and after studying in Europe was professor of Greek at Yale from 1831 to 1846, and then its president till 1871. In 1871-81 he was president of the American company of revisers of the New Testament. Besides editions of Greek plays, &c. his works include an Introduction to the Study of International Law (5th ed. 1879), Essays on Divorce and Divorce Legislation (1869), and Political Science; or the State, theoretically and practically considered (2 vols. 1877). He died 1st July 1889.