Ezekiel Robinson Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Reverend
Ezekiel Robinson
Order:7th
Office:President of Brown University
Term Start:1872
Term End:1889
Predecessor:Alexis Caswell
Successor:Elisha Andrews
Birth Date:23 March 1815
Birth Place:Attleboro, Massachusetts, US
Death Place:Boston, Massachusetts, US
Resting Place:Mount Hope Cemetery
Rochester, New York, US
Alma Mater:Brown University
Spouse:Harriet Richards Parker
Nationality:American
Signature:Signature of Ezekiel Gilman Robinson (1815–1894).png

Ezekiel Gilman Robinson (March 23, 1815 – June 13, 1894) was an American Baptist clergyman, theologian and educator, born at Attleboro, Massachusetts, and educated at Brown University and at Newton Theological Institution. He preached at Norfolk, Virginia, and at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was professor of Hebrew and biblical interpretation in the Western Theological Seminary (Covington, Kentucky), and in 1849 accepted a call to a church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Three years later he was appointed professor of theology in Rochester Theological Seminary and in 1868 was made its president. From 1872 to 1889 he was president of Brown University, and from 1893 to his death he occupied the chair of ethics and apologetics at the University of Chicago. He edited the Christian Review from 1859 to 1864.

Presidency of Brown

Some of the highlights of his presidency at Brown include:[1]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. 1881. National Biographical Publishing Company. Providence. 1. 273.