Woolsey, Theodore Dwight

D.D. (Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1847), LL.D.(Wesley an University, Middle town, Conn., 1845), Congregationalist, son of William W. Woolsey, a prosperous merchant of New-York City, and of Eliza Dwight, sister of President Dwight of Yale College, New Haven, Conn.; b. in New-York City, Oct. 31, 1801; entered Yale College 1816, graduated 1820; for a year (1820-21) studied law in New-York City, without a view to practising it, and then theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, N.J. for nearly two years (1821-23); was a tutor at Yale College for about two years (1823-25); soon afterwards went to Europe, where he spent three years, chiefly in France and Germany. In Germany he studied Greek; at Leipzig under Godfrid Hermann, at Bonn under Welcker, and at Berlin under Boeckh and Bopp. Returning to the United States, he was appointed profe or of Greek at Yale College in 1831; and held the office actively until 1846, when he was chosen president of Yale College, which position he continued in for twenty-five years, until 1871, when he resigned his connection with the institution, and withdrew from public life. He was a member of the American Company of Revision of the New Testament, and its chairman (1871-81). He is the author of editions of the Greek text, with English notes, for the use of college students, of the Alceslis of Euripi des, Cambridge, Ma ., 1834; the Anti gone of Sophocles, 1835; the Pro me the us of iEschylus, 1837; the Electra of Sophocles, 1837; and the Gorgias of Plato, 1843; Introduction to the Study of International Law, designed as an Aid in Teaching and in Historical Studies, Boston, 1860, 5th ed. enlarged, New York 1879, London 1875, 2d ed. 1879; E ays on Divorce and Divorce Legislation, with Special Preference to the United States, New York, 1869, 2d ed. revised 1882; Religion of the Present and of the Future: Sermons preached chiefly at Yale College, 1871; Political Science, or the Slate, theoretically and practically considered, 1877, 2 vols., London, 1877; Communism and Socialism in their History and Theory: A Sketch, New York, 1880; editor of new editions of Francis Lieber's On Civil Liberty and' Self-Gov eminent, Philadelphia, 1871 (originally Philadelphia, 1853, 2 vols.), and Manual of Political Ethics, 1871, 2 vols, (originally Boston, 1838-39, 2 vols.); besides, he is the author of smaller works and of a number of e ays and reviews, e.g., in The North- American, Princeton Review, The Century, and especially in The New Eng lander, of which latter for several years after its first appearance (1843) he was one of a committee of publication.