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HADLEY, JAMES (1821–1872)

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HADLEY, See also:JAMES (1821–1872) , See also:American See also:scholar, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:March 1821 in See also:Fairfield, See also:Herkimer See also:county, New See also:York, where his See also:father was See also:professor of See also:chemistry in Fairfield Medical See also:College. At the See also:age of nine an See also:accident lamed him for See also:life. He graduated from Yale in 1842, having entered the Junior class in 1840; studied in the Theological See also:Department of Yale, and in 1844–1845 was a See also:tutor in See also:Middlebury College. He was tutor at Yale in 1845–1848, assistant professor of See also:Greek in 1848–1851, and professor of Greek, succeeding See also:President See also:Woolsey, from 1851 until his See also:death in Hew Haven on the 14th of See also:November 1872. As an undergraduate he showed himself an able mathematician, but the See also:influence of See also:Edward Elbridge See also:Salisbury, under whom Hadley and W. D. See also:Whitney studied See also:Sanskrit together, turned his See also:attention toward the study of See also:language. He knew Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, See also:Hebrew, Arabic, Armenian, several See also:Celtic See also:languages and the languages of See also:modern See also:Europe; but he published little, and his scholarship found scant outlet in the college class-See also:room. His most See also:original written See also:work was an See also:essay on Greek See also:accent, published in a See also:German version in See also:Curtius's Studien zur griechischen and lateinischen Grammatik. Hadley's Greek See also:Grammar (1860; revised by See also:Frederic de See also:Forest See also:Allen, 1884) was based on Curtius's Schulgrammatik (1852, 1855, 1857, 1859), and See also:long held its See also:place in American See also:schools. Hadley was a member of the American See also:Committee for the revision of the New Testament, was president of the American See also:Oriental Society (1871–1872), and contributed to See also:Webster's See also:dictionary an essay on the See also:History of the See also:English Language. In 1873 were published his Introduction to See also:Roman See also:Law (edited by T.

D. Woolsey) and his Essays, Philological and See also:

Critical (edited by W. D. Whitney). See the memorial by See also:Noah See also:Porter in The New Englander, vol. xxxii. (See also:Jan. 1873), pp. 35-55; and the See also:sketch by his son, A. T. Hadley, in See also:Biographical See also:Memoirs of the See also:National See also:Academy of Sciences, vol. v. (1905), pp. 247-254.

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