Timothy Dwight V

Timothy Dwight V ( November 16, 1828 in Norwich, Connecticut, † May 26 1916 in New Haven, Connecticut) was 1886-1899 president of Yale University.

He was the son of James Dwight and his wife Susan Breed, and the grandson of President Timothy Dwight IV Yale His uncle Henry Edwin Dwight was a well known author.

He graduated successfully in 1849, four years after his admission, his studies at Yale University, where he was inducted into the society of Skull & Bones. In addition, he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Until he continued his studies at the universities of Bonn and Berlin in Germany, he served the College from 1851 to 1855 as a tutor. In July 1858 he returned to the USA and became professor of sacred literature at Yale. He supported the reorganization of the divinity school, was editor of the New Englishman (New Englander ) ( 1866-1874 ) and worked in the American committee for the revision of the Bible from 1873 to 1885.

In 1886 he was appointed as successor to the coming into pension Noah Porter president of Yale. He expanded the institution and set it by law so that Yale now on, rather than to call itself a college, university was called. In 1898 he retired.

Dwight is the author of Thoughts of and for the Inner Life (1899 ) and Memories of Yale Life and Men (1903 ).