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Benjamin Ide Wheeler

January 07, 2023

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Benjamin Ide Wheeler (July 15, 1854– May 2, 1927)[1] was a professor of Greek and comparative philology at Cornell University, writer, and President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919.

Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 1899

Life and career

Early years

Benjamin Ide Wheeler was born in Randolph, Massachusetts,[2] on July 15, 1854, the son of the Rev. Benjamin and Mary Eliza (Ide) Wheeler. His father was successively a church pastor in Plaistow, New Hampshire; Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Randolph, Massachusetts; Haverhill, Massachusetts; Saco, Maine; Franklin, New Hampshire. His mother, Mary Eliza Ide, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, daughter of Ebenezer Ide of the Ide family which had its origin in South Attleborough, then Rehoboth. Their only son, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, had his education first in the public schools of Haverhill and Saco, Maine. It was at Saco that he first entered a high school in 1866. This high school was the institution which formerly had been called Thornton Academy, and subsequently resumed that name.[2]

Higher education

On moving in 1868 to Franklin, New Hampshire, he entered the Franklin Academy, and after six months there, went to the New London Academy, subsequently Colby–Sawyer College. From this school he was duly graduated in the summer of 1871. In the following autumn he entered Brown University from which he was graduated in 1875. His studies at college followed the usual curriculum without any suggestion of specialization. On the commencement stage he had the honour of the classical oration. During his college course he received the Dunn premium, given for the best work of the year in the department of English, with special reference to writing and speaking, and also one of the Carpenter prizes given to the two students of the year who in the opinion of the faculty combined in the highest degree the elements of success in life.[2]

Teaching career

After graduation, Wheeler taught for four years in the Providence High School. During the first two years, he instructed mostly in mathematics; during the last two year, his work was evenly divided between classics and mathematics. In 1879, he was appointed Tutor in Brown University to take the place, during a temporary absence of two years, of Professor Poland, Assistant Professor in Greek and Latin.[2]

Marriage

On June 25, 1881, Wheeler married Amey Webb of Providence, Rhode Island. She was the daughter of Henry Aborn Webb, a banker of Providence. Her mother, Amey Gorham Webb, was the daughter of Jabez Gorham founder of Gorham Silver,[2] that became Gorham Silver Manufacturing Company after his son John Gorham took over.[3]

Studies abroad

For four years, 1881–85, Wheeler studied in German universities—for a year at Leipzig, then for two years at Heidelberg, a half year at Jena, and a half year at Berlin. In the spring of 1885, he received on examination at Heidelberg the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, summa cum laude, presenting a thesis under Hermann Osthoff entitled Der griechische Nominalaccent, afterwards published at Strassburg as a separate book.[2] The thesis led to what is known as the law of dactylic retraction or "Wheelers Law".[4] Joseph Wright, future Corpus Christi Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford, completed his PhD the same year as Wheeler and also writing his thesis under Osthoff.[5]

Return to America

On returning to America he was for one year Instructor at Harvard, 1885–86, then for thirteen years Professor at Cornell University, holding at first the title Acting Professor of Classical Philology, 1886–87, then of Professor of Comparative Philology 1887–88, and from 1888 to 1899 that of Professor of Greek and Comparative Philology. In 1899, he became President of the University of California.

During the year 1895–96, he was Professor of Greek Literature at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and during the year 1909–10, Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin. He was member of the American Oriental Society, the American Philological Association, and the Kaiserliches Archaeologisches Institut. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from nine different universities, Princeton, 1896; Harvard, 1900; Brown, 1900; Yale, 1901; Johns Hopkins, 1902; University of Wisconsin, 1904; Dartmouth, 1905; Columbia, 1906; and a degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Athens in Greece.[2]

During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire he was a member of Mayor Eugene Schmitz's Committee of Fifty.

During World War I his "well-known German sympathies and admiration for the kaiser"[6] brought suspicion upon him and he retired as President of the University of California after the armistice. Wheeler had previously nominated the kaiser for the Nobel Peace Prize.[7]

Under Wheeler the University of California underwent one of its periods of greatest growth.[citation needed] He also expanded the powers of the president, gaining the power to appoint all faculty.[citation needed]

Legacy

Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal

Since 1929, the award has been given to members of the community of Berkeley for exhibited outstanding contributions. Since 1994, the Berkeley Community Fund has been granting "Berkeley's Most Useful Citizen" award. Until 1991, it was bi-annual but changed to annual in 1994. Several notable people have received the award:[8]

Works

Wheeler authored Analogy in Language (1887); Introduction to the Study of the History of Language (1890); Organization of the Higher Education in the United States (1896), published in Munich; Dionysos and Immortality (1899); Life of Alexander the Great (1900); Instruction and Democracy in America (1910) (published in Strassburg, Germany).[2]

Articles

A commencement address at the University of Michigan titled The old world in the new, an address delivered at the commencement exercises of the University of Michigan, June 30, 1898, was published in the August 1898 issue of The Atlantic[12] and Art in Language was published in the December 1900 issue.[13][14]

Publications

  • Der griechische Nominalaccent (1885)[15]
  • Analogy, and the Scope of its Application in Language (1887)[16]
  • Principles of Language Growth (1891)
  • Introduction to the Study of the History of Language (1891)[17]
  • The Organization of Higher Education in the United States (1897)
  • Dionysos and Immortality (the Ingersoll Lecture for 1898)[18]
  • Alexander the Great: The Merging of East and West in Universal History (1900)[19]
  • The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language (1905)[20]

References

  1. ^ Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Columbia Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (1914) American College of Genealogy (Digitized by Google)
  3. ^ Jabez Gorham House (with notes)- Retrieved 2018-07-31
  4. ^ "Wheeler's Law". Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (Dieter Gunkel, 2013). doi:10.1163/2214-448X_eagll_SIM_00000551. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "Linguistics Department Commencement Address, May 1997" (PDF). berkeley.edu (1997). Retrieved August 14, 2018. (pp. 4)
  6. ^ Brechin, Gray A. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin University of California Press (2001) p300
  7. ^ Nobel Peace Prize nomination archives
  8. ^ Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal- Retrieved 2018-07-31
  9. ^ William B. Herms 2018-08-13 at the Wayback Machine- Retrieved 2018-08-13
  10. ^ Encyclopedia Densho: Galen M. Fisher, Critic of "internment" of Japanese Americans during WWII -Retrieved 2018-08-13
  11. ^ Mal Warwick- Retrieved 2018-08-13
  12. ^ The old world in the new, an address delivered at the commencement exercises of the University of Michigan, June 30, 1898. Houghton, Mifflin & co. (Library of Congress) Aug. 1898.- Retrieved 2018-07-31
  13. ^ Art in Language. The Atlantic, Dec. 1900.- Retrieved 2018-07-31
  14. ^ Kenneth Cmiel (1991). Democratic Eloquence: The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-century America. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520074859.
  15. ^ Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1885). Der griechische Nominalaccent (in German). K.J. Trübner.
  16. ^ Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1887). Analogy and the scope of its application in language. University of Cambridge, Mass.
  17. ^ Strong, Herbert Augustus; Logeman, Willem Sijbrand; Wheeler, Benjamin Ide; Paul, Hermann (1891). "Introduction to the Study of the History of Language". London: Longmans, Green, & Co. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. ^ Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1899). Dionysos and immortality: the Greek faith in immortality as affected by the rise of individualism. Houghton, Mifflin and company.
  19. ^ Wheeler, Benjamin Ide (1900). "Alexander the Great: The Merging of East and West in Universal History". New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. ^ Benjamin Ide Wheeler (1905). The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language. University Press.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
  • Benjamin Ide Wheeler at the Database of Classical Scholars
  • Guide to the Benjamin Ide Wheeler Papers at The Bancroft Library
  • Three Faces of Berkeley--Competing Ideologies in the Wheeler Era, 1899-1919
  • Benjamin Ide Wheeler materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
  • "Wheeler, Benjamin Ide" . The New Student's Reference Work . 1914.
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Benjamin Wheeler redirects here For other uses see Benjamin Wheeler disambiguation Benjamin Ide Wheeler July 15 1854 May 2 1927 1 was a professor of Greek and comparative philology at Cornell University writer and President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919 Benjamin Ide Wheeler 1899 Contents 1 Life and career 1 1 Early years 1 2 Higher education 1 3 Teaching career 1 4 Marriage 2 Studies abroad 2 1 Return to America 3 Legacy 3 1 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal 4 Works 4 1 Articles 5 Publications 6 References 7 External linksLife and career Edit Wheeler Hall at the University of California Berkeley Early years Edit Benjamin Ide Wheeler was born in Randolph Massachusetts 2 on July 15 1854 the son of the Rev Benjamin and Mary Eliza Ide Wheeler His father was successively a church pastor in Plaistow New Hampshire Pawtucket Rhode Island Randolph Massachusetts Haverhill Massachusetts Saco Maine Franklin New Hampshire His mother Mary Eliza Ide was born in Pawtucket Rhode Island daughter of Ebenezer Ide of the Ide family which had its origin in South Attleborough then Rehoboth Their only son Benjamin Ide Wheeler had his education first in the public schools of Haverhill and Saco Maine It was at Saco that he first entered a high school in 1866 This high school was the institution which formerly had been called Thornton Academy and subsequently resumed that name 2 Higher education Edit On moving in 1868 to Franklin New Hampshire he entered the Franklin Academy and after six months there went to the New London Academy subsequently Colby Sawyer College From this school he was duly graduated in the summer of 1871 In the following autumn he entered Brown University from which he was graduated in 1875 His studies at college followed the usual curriculum without any suggestion of specialization On the commencement stage he had the honour of the classical oration During his college course he received the Dunn premium given for the best work of the year in the department of English with special reference to writing and speaking and also one of the Carpenter prizes given to the two students of the year who in the opinion of the faculty combined in the highest degree the elements of success in life 2 Teaching career Edit After graduation Wheeler taught for four years in the Providence High School During the first two years he instructed mostly in mathematics during the last two year his work was evenly divided between classics and mathematics In 1879 he was appointed Tutor in Brown University to take the place during a temporary absence of two years of Professor Poland Assistant Professor in Greek and Latin 2 Marriage Edit On June 25 1881 Wheeler married Amey Webb of Providence Rhode Island She was the daughter of Henry Aborn Webb a banker of Providence Her mother Amey Gorham Webb was the daughter of Jabez Gorham founder of Gorham Silver 2 that became Gorham Silver Manufacturing Company after his son John Gorham took over 3 Studies abroad EditFor four years 1881 85 Wheeler studied in German universities for a year at Leipzig then for two years at Heidelberg a half year at Jena and a half year at Berlin In the spring of 1885 he received on examination at Heidelberg the degree of Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude presenting a thesis under Hermann Osthoff entitled Der griechische Nominalaccent afterwards published at Strassburg as a separate book 2 The thesis led to what is known as the law of dactylic retraction or Wheelers Law 4 Joseph Wright future Corpus Christi Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford completed his PhD the same year as Wheeler and also writing his thesis under Osthoff 5 Return to America Edit On returning to America he was for one year Instructor at Harvard 1885 86 then for thirteen years Professor at Cornell University holding at first the title Acting Professor of Classical Philology 1886 87 then of Professor of Comparative Philology 1887 88 and from 1888 to 1899 that of Professor of Greek and Comparative Philology In 1899 he became President of the University of California During the year 1895 96 he was Professor of Greek Literature at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and during the year 1909 10 Roosevelt Professor at the University of Berlin He was member of the American Oriental Society the American Philological Association and the Kaiserliches Archaeologisches Institut He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from nine different universities Princeton 1896 Harvard 1900 Brown 1900 Yale 1901 Johns Hopkins 1902 University of Wisconsin 1904 Dartmouth 1905 Columbia 1906 and a degree of Doctor of Letters from the University of Athens in Greece 2 During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire he was a member of Mayor Eugene Schmitz s Committee of Fifty During World War I his well known German sympathies and admiration for the kaiser 6 brought suspicion upon him and he retired as President of the University of California after the armistice Wheeler had previously nominated the kaiser for the Nobel Peace Prize 7 Under Wheeler the University of California underwent one of its periods of greatest growth citation needed He also expanded the powers of the president gaining the power to appoint all faculty citation needed Legacy EditThe University of California Berkeley named Wheeler Hall in his honor The Liberty ship SS Benjamin Ide Wheeler was named in his honor The Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal was created in 1929 Founding member of the Commonwealth Club of California in 1903 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal Edit Since 1929 the award has been given to members of the community of Berkeley for exhibited outstanding contributions Since 1994 the Berkeley Community Fund has been granting Berkeley s Most Useful Citizen award Until 1991 it was bi annual but changed to annual in 1994 Several notable people have received the award 8 1929 William H Waste 1931 August Vollmer 1933 Robert Gordon Sproul 1935 Chester R Rowell 1937 William B Herms 9 1939 Monroe E Deutsch 1941 Louise Marks 1943 Lester W Hink 1945 E O Lawrence 1947 Vere V Loper 1949 Emery Stone 1951 Clarence A Bullwinkel 1953 Galen M Fisher 10 1955 Walter A Gordon 1957 Lilly M Whitaker 1959 Robert R Porter 1961 Redmond C Staats Jr 1963 Claude B Hutchison 1965 Katherine Towle 1967 Wallace J S Johnson 1969 Roger W Heyns 1971 Wilmont Sweeny 1973 Carol Sibley 1975 Thomas B Shaw 1977 Sylvia C McLaughlin 1979 Robert W Ratcliff 1981 Paul E Harberts 1983 Robert G Eaneman 1985 Robert A Rice 1987 Margaret S Gordon 1989 Fred S Stripp 1991 Mary Lee Jefferds 1994 Ira Michael Heyman 1995 Alba and Bernard Witkin 1996 John A Martin Jr 1997 Chang Lin Tien 1998 David R Brower 1999 Marian Cleeves Diamond 2000 Thelton E Henderson 2001 Jeffrey Shattuck Leiter 2002 Alice Waters 2003 Kent Nagano 2004 Arthur Rosenfeld Ph D 2005 Davida Coady M D 2006 Mal Warwick 11 2007 Robert Cole 2008 Helen Meyer 2008 John Meyer 2009 Steven H Oliver 2010 Denny Abrams 2010 Richard Millikan 2011 Narsai M David 2012 Susan Medak 2013 Wavy Gravy 2014 Arlene Blum 2015 Archana Horsting 2016 Skip Battle 2017 Vicki Alexander 2018 Susan Muscarella 2019 Frances Dinkelspiel Lance Knobel and Tracey TaylorWorks EditWheeler authored Analogy in Language 1887 Introduction to the Study of the History of Language 1890 Organization of the Higher Education in the United States 1896 published in Munich Dionysos and Immortality 1899 Life of Alexander the Great 1900 Instruction and Democracy in America 1910 published in Strassburg Germany 2 Articles Edit A commencement address at the University of Michigan titled The old world in the new an address delivered at the commencement exercises of the University of Michigan June 30 1898 was published in the August 1898 issue of The Atlantic 12 and Art in Language was published in the December 1900 issue 13 14 Publications EditDer griechische Nominalaccent 1885 15 Analogy and the Scope of its Application in Language 1887 16 Principles of Language Growth 1891 Introduction to the Study of the History of Language 1891 17 The Organization of Higher Education in the United States 1897 Dionysos and Immortality the Ingersoll Lecture for 1898 18 Alexander the Great The Merging of East and West in Universal History 1900 19 The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language 1905 20 References Edit Benjamin Ide Wheeler Columbia Encyclopedia a b c d e f g h The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America 1914 American College of Genealogy Digitized by Google Jabez Gorham House with notes Retrieved 2018 07 31 Wheeler s Law Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics Dieter Gunkel 2013 doi 10 1163 2214 448X eagll SIM 00000551 a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Linguistics Department Commencement Address May 1997 PDF berkeley edu 1997 Retrieved August 14 2018 pp 4 Brechin Gray A Imperial San Francisco Urban Power Earthly Ruin University of California Press 2001 p300 Nobel Peace Prize nomination archives Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal Retrieved 2018 07 31 William B Herms Archived 2018 08 13 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2018 08 13 Encyclopedia Densho Galen M Fisher Critic of internment of Japanese Americans during WWII Retrieved 2018 08 13 Mal Warwick Retrieved 2018 08 13 The old world in the new an address delivered at the commencement exercises of the University of Michigan June 30 1898 Houghton Mifflin amp co Library of Congress Aug 1898 Retrieved 2018 07 31 Art in Language The Atlantic Dec 1900 Retrieved 2018 07 31 Kenneth Cmiel 1991 Democratic Eloquence The Fight Over Popular Speech in Nineteenth century America University of California Press ISBN 9780520074859 Benjamin Ide Wheeler 1885 Der griechische Nominalaccent in German K J Trubner Benjamin Ide Wheeler 1887 Analogy and the scope of its application in language University of Cambridge Mass Strong Herbert Augustus Logeman Willem Sijbrand Wheeler Benjamin Ide Paul Hermann 1891 Introduction to the Study of the History of Language London Longmans Green amp Co a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Benjamin Ide Wheeler 1899 Dionysos and immortality the Greek faith in immortality as affected by the rise of individualism Houghton Mifflin and company Wheeler Benjamin Ide 1900 Alexander the Great The Merging of East and West in Universal History New York G P Putnam s Sons a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Benjamin Ide Wheeler 1905 The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language University Press External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Benjamin Ide Wheeler Benjamin Ide Wheeler at the Database of Classical Scholars Guide to the Benjamin Ide Wheeler Papers at The Bancroft Library Three Faces of Berkeley Competing Ideologies in the Wheeler Era 1899 1919 Benjamin Ide Wheeler materials in the South Asian American Digital Archive SAADA Wheeler Benjamin Ide The New Student s Reference Work 1914 Academic officesPreceded byMartin Kellogg President of the University of California1899 1919 Succeeded byDavid Prescott Barrows Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Benjamin Ide Wheeler amp oldid 1091336263, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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