Ezekiel Robinson
Politician
1815 – 1894
Who was Ezekiel Robinson?
Ezekiel Gilman Robinson 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, 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.
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- Born
- Mar 23, 1815
Attleboro - Spouses
- Religion
- Baptists
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Brown University
- Employment
- Brown University
- Lived in
- Massachusetts
- Died
- Jun 13, 1894
Boston
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on July 23, 2013
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