The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

(New York :  Alumni Office,  1958.)

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FACULTY
 

PRESIDENTS
 

1836                     *Thoina,s McAuley                     1840

See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1840                          *Joel Parker                          1842

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1873                      *Wimain Adams                       1880

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1880              *Roswell Dwight Hitchcock              1887

See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1887               *Thomas Samuel Hastings               1897

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1897                 *Charles Cuthbert Hall                  1908

See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1908                       *Francis Brown                       1916

See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1917             *Arthur Cushman McGiffert             1926

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1926                   *Henry Sloane CofHn                   1945

Born Ne-w York City, Jan. 5, 1877; Yale University,
1897; New College and University of Edinburgh,
1897-99; University of Marburg, 1899; Union The¬
ological Seminary, 1899-1900, Bachelor of Divinity;
resident graduate, ditto, 1900-01; ordained (Pres¬
bytery of New York), May 2, 1900; pastor (Bedford
Park), New York City, 1900-05; pastor (Madison
Avenue), ditto, 1905-26; assistant professor (Homi-
letics), Union Theological Seminary, 1904-09; asso¬
ciate professor, ditto, 1909-19; associate professor
(Pastoral Theology), ditto, 1919-26; Brown professor
(Homiletics and Pastoral Theology), ditto, 1926-45;
president of the Faculty and director, ditto, 1926-45;
President Emeritus, ditto, 1945-54; died, Lakeville,
Conn., Nov. 25, 1954; Moderator, General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1943-44;
Joseph Cook lecturer to India and China 1946-47.
D.D., New York University, 1906, Yale University,
1915, Harvard University, 1922, Columbia University,
 

1925, Princeton University, X925, University of Glas¬
gow, 1926, Union College, 1928, Episcopal Theologi¬
cal School, Cambridge, Mass., 1935; Jewish Theo¬
logical Seminary of America, 1937, Bowdoin College,
1944; D.Theol., University of Marburg, 1930, Facultd
libre de Theologie protestante de Paris, 1938; Litt.D.,
College of the Ozarks, 1931, Western Reserve Uni¬
versity, 1937, Hamilton College, 1938; L.LD., Am¬
herst College, 1927, University of St. Andrews, 1934.

1945              Henry Pitney Van Dusen

Born Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 11,
1897; Princeton University, 1919; New College and
University of Edinburgh, 1921-22, 1930-32, Ph.D.;
Union Theological Seminary, 1922-24, B.D.; or¬
dained (Presbytery of New York), April 27, 1924;
student department, Y.M.C.A., New York City,
1924-26; associate executive secretary, ditto, 1927-
28; instructor (Systematic Theology and the Philos¬
ophy of Religion), Union Theological Seminary,
1926-28; assistant professor, ditto, 1928-31; associate
Professor, ditto, 1931-36; Roosevelt professor (Sys¬
tematic Theology), 1936——; dean of students, ditto,

1931-39; president of the Faculty, ditto,  1945------;

president of the Faculty, Auburn Theological Semi¬
nary,  1945------; president, American Association of

Theological    Schools,    1942-44;    president.    Union

Settlement    Association,    1945------;    vice-president,

Bd of Foreign Missions, Presbyterian Church,
U.S.A., 1949-52; president, American Theological
Society, 1952-53; chairman, Joint Committee of the
World Council of Churches and International Mis¬
sionary Council, 1954------; chairman. Foreign Di¬
vision,   National   Council   of   Churches,   1956------;

S.T.D., New York University, 1945, Westminister
Theological Seminary, 1956, Columbia University,
1956; D.D., Amherst College, 1946, Edinburgh Uni¬
versity, 1946, Oberlin College, 1947, Yale University,
1947, Heidelberg College, 1950, Queens University,
1952, Harvard University, 1954, Dartmouth College,
1956.
 

PROFESSORS
 

1836                     *Thomas McAuley                     1840

See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1836                           *Henry White                         1850

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1837                       *Edward Robinson                     1863

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1840                          *Joel Parker                          1842

See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1848                *Thomas Harvey Skinner                1871

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1850                   *Henry Boynton Smith                  1877
See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1851                    *James Patriot Wilson                  1853

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1855              *Roswell Dwight Hitchcock              1887

See Alumni Catalogue, 1936-1947.

1863        *William Greenough Thayer Shedd        1890

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1871                       *William Adams

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1870                            *Philip Schaff

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1871                   *George Lewis Prentiss

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1874               *Charles Augustus Briggs

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1881               *Thomas Samuel Hastings

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1880
1893
1897
1913
1911
1916
 

1879                       *Francis Brown

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1883                 *Charles Ripley Gillett                 1929

Born New York City, Nov. 29, 1855; University of
the City of New York, 1874; studied Civil Engineer¬
ing, ditto, 1874-76; civil engineer, 1876-77; Union
Theological Seminary, 1877-80; fellow, ditto, Berlin,
Germany, 1881-83; librarian. Union Theological
Seminary, 1883-1908; instructor (Theological En¬
cyclopedia),   ditto,   1893-98;   registrar,   ditto,   1898-
 

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