Addison Van Name (November 15, 1835 – September 29, 1922) was an American philologist and librarian, serving as University Librarian of

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

from 1865 to 1904, and was made librarian emeritus in 1905. He himself attended Yale, graduating as valedictorian in 1858. During his forty year tenure as University Library, the number of volumes in the Yale Library increased from 44,500 to 475,000. His field of specialty was Orientalia. He taught Hebrew at Yale for four years, and for many years was Librarian of the

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. He was a member of the Acorn Club, to which he was elected in 1901. He was also a member of the

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. He was married on August 19, 1867 in Berlin to Julia, daughter of Dr. Josiah Willard Gibbs, professor of sacred literature at Yale, and sister of

Josiah Willard Gibbs Josiah Willard Gibbs (; February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made significant theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodynamics was instrumental in t ...

, professor of mathematical physics at Yale. They had three children: Willard Gibbs Van Name, Theodora Van Name, and Ralph Gibbs Van Name. Van Name, the last of Yale's pre-Civil War scholars, died in New Haven and was buried in

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."Addison VanName". ''Obituary Record of Yale Graduates 1922-1923''. New Haven: Yale University. August 1, 1923. pp. 614-6.

Works

Contributions to Creole Grammar
in ''Transactions of the American Philological Association'' (1869) *
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
' (1913)

References

External links

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Yale University Art Gallery, Addison Van Name, BA 1858
pastel portrait
son Ralph Gibbs Van NameGibbs-Van Name Papers, Yale University
1835 births 1922 deaths American librarians Academic librarians {{academic-stub