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Ezra Stiles (10 December [O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12, 1795) was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795) and one of the founders of Brown University.
To be sung as a third verse to “Bright College Years”. Ezra Stiles College is named to honor the memory of Ezra Stiles, Yale Class of 1746, an eminent American theologian, lawyer, scientist, and philosopher, who served as the seventh President of Yale from 1778 to 1795.
Ezra Stiles. Founders of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences: Five-Minute Profiles. Ezra Stiles 1727-1795. Presented by Ernest I. Kohorn, MChir, FRCS. Ezra Stiles was born in 1727 in North Haven, Connecticut, the son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles. He graduated from Yale College in 1746. He studied theology and was ordained in 1749.
23 de may. de 2018 · Stiles, Ezra. STILES, EZRA. (1727–1795). Clergyman, scholar, and president of Yale College. Born in North Haven, Connecticut, Stiles was graduated from Yale College in 1746. Although he studied theology and was licensed to preach on 30 May 1749, he remained at Yale as an instructor (called tutor).
11 de mar. de 2022 · Educator and theologian Ezra Stiles authored numerous scholarly publications and went on to serve as president of Yale University. Among his greatest contributions to history, however, are the journals and records he kept detailing daily life in 18th-century New England.
Ezra Stiles ( 10 December [ O.S. 29 November] 1727 – May 12, 1795) was an American educator, academic, Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He is noted as the seventh president of Yale College (1778–1795) and one of the founders of Brown University.
For over two decades, historians of the early modern world have been charting the practices, principles, and ideologies of the “Republic of Letters,” an intellectual community forged via paper, not place. Few, however, have ever ventured to consider America's place in this scholarly republic.
