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James Luce Kingsley (August 28, 1778 – August 31, 1852) was an American classical and
James Luce Kingsley (August 28, 1778 – August 31, 1852) was an American classical and biblical
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scholar.
Biography
Born inWindham, Connecticut
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, Kingsley was educated at Williams and Yale
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, where he was graduated in 1799. He afterward taught for two years, first in Wethersfield, Connecticut
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and then in Windham, and in 1801 became a tutor at Yale. In 1805 he was appointed to the newly established professorship of Hebrew
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, Greek
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, and Latin
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in there. Kingsley was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 1825. He was relieved of a part of his duties in 1831, when a separate professorship of Greek was established, and of another part in 1835, when a professorship of sacred literature was founded, but he continued to instruct in Latin until he resigned in 1851. Kingsley died in New Haven, Connecticut
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.
Work
As a writer of English, Yale president Timothy Dwight called him the “AmericanAddison
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”; and Yale president Woolsey said of him, “I doubt if any American scholar has ever surpassed him in Latin style.” He published a discourse on the 200th anniversary of the founding of New Haven, April 25, 1838; editions of Tacitus (Philadelphia), and Cicero, ''De Oratore'' (New York); and was the author of a history of Yale college in the ''American Quarterly Register'' (1835); a life of Ezra Stiles
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, president of Yale college, in Sparks's series “American Biography.”
Notes
References
*Further reading
*Daniel Coit Gilman
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wrote a sketch of his life. ()
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