George Washburn (educator)
George Washburn (March 1, 1833, Middleboro, Massachusetts - February 15, 1915[1]) was an American educator, president of Robert College.[2][3]
Biography
Washburn graduated from Amherst College in 1855, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1859.[4][5] He became professor of philosophy in Robert College, Constantinople (now Istanbul), in 1868, was acting president there 1870-1877, and became president in 1877. He was an authority on the political questions of southeastern Europe. In 1876 he was instrumental, together with Dr. Albert Long, in sounding the first alarm and publicizing the Turkish massacres in Bulgaria.[6][7][8] During the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, in 1893, he delivered an address on Islam.[9] He contributed many articles to English and American periodicals. He was also the Founder Principal of American College, Madurai.
Honors
- Commander of the Princely Order of Saint Alexander (Bulgaria).
- Grand Officer of the National Order of Civil Merit (Bulgaria).
- A street in Sofia, Bulgaria is named after him.
Notes
- ^ "Washburn, George". Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
- ^ Wright Jr., Walter L. (1936). "Washburn, George". In Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 19 (Troye-Wentworth). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 500–501. Retrieved 3 August 2016 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Washburn, George (1909). Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College (1 ed.). Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Retrieved 19 March 2016 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Ward, William Hayes (October 1914). "George Washburn, Amherst 1855". Amherst Graduates' Quarterly. IV: 293–298. hdl:2027/mdp.39015075085533.
- ^ Leonard, John. W., ed. (1900). WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA; A Biographical Dictionary of Living Men and Women of the United States 1899-1900 (1 ed.). Chicago: A.N. Marquis & Company. p. 769. Retrieved August 29, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Chary, Frederick B. (2011). The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations: THE HISTORY OF BULGARIA. Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, England: Greenwood, An Imprint of ABC-Clio, LLC. p. 33.
- ^ See Pears, Edwin (1916). Forty Years in Constantinople, The Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears 1873-1915 (1 ed.). London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. p. 16. Retrieved 31 March 2016 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Косев, Константин; Жечев, Николай; Дойнов, Дойно (1976). История на Априлското въстание 1876. София: Партиздат. p. 482.
- ^ John Henry Barrows, The World's Parliament of Religions, Vol 1, Chicago: The Parliament Publishing Company, 1893, pg 565-582.
Selected bibliography
- Anonymous (September 1873). "The Geology of the Bosphorus". American Journal of Science. 6 (33): 186–193. Bibcode:1873AmJS....6..186A. doi:10.2475/ajs.s3-6.33.186. Retrieved August 30, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- "Calvert's Supposed Relics of Man in the Miocene of the Dardanelles". Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. XXII (2): 203–205. 1874. hdl:2027/hvd.32044092861582.
- "Mohammedanism". The Message of the World Religions. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1898. pp. 65–85. Retrieved August 30, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College (1 ed.). Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1909. Retrieved August 30, 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- Washburn, George (January 1911). "Probable Influence of the Turkish Revolution on the Faith of Islam". The Journal of Race Development. 1 (3): 302–315. JSTOR 29737866.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Reynolds, Francis J., ed. (1921). . Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P. F. Collier & Son Company.
- Wright Jr., Walter L. (1936). "Washburn, George". In Malone, Dumas (ed.). Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 19 (Troye-Wentworth). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 500–501. Retrieved 30 August 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- Ward, William Hayes (October 1914). "George Washburn, Amherst 1855". Amherst Graduates' Quarterly. IV: 293–298. hdl:2027/mdp.39015075085533.
- Bryce, Viscount (October 1914). "The Late Dr. George Washburn (From the Manchester Guardian )". Amherst Graduates' Quarterly. IV: 299–300. hdl:2027/mdp.39015075085533.
- "Book Review: Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College by George Washburn, D.D., LL.D. xxxi and 317 pp. and illustrations, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1909, $3". Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. 42 (7): 536–537. 1910. JSTOR 199547.
External links
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- Works by George Washburn, at Unz.org
- George Washburn; Born March 1, 1833, Died Feb. 16, 1915; For 50 years Missionary and Educator in Turkey Beloved by the People of Many Nations, Nemasket Hill Cemetery, Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA – via Find A Grave
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