Edward Southey Joynes
| Edward Southey Joynes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 21, 1834 Accomac, Virginia |
| Died |
June 18, 1917 Columbia, South Carolina |
| Resting place | Elmwood Memorial Gardens |
| Occupation | University professor |
| Spouse(s) | Eliza Waller Vest Joynes |
| Children |
Walker Waller Joynes Louise Joynes Ragsdale |
| Relatives | J. Willard Ragsdale (son-in-law) |
Edward Southey Joynes (1834–1917) was an American university professor of modern languages, especially German and French. Although he taught at the College of William & Mary before the American Civil War, the bulk of his career was spent teaching foreign languages at other Southern universities in the Reconstruction Era. For example, he was the first Professor of Modern Languages at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Additionally, he helped establish the public school system in Columbia, South Carolina and co-founded Winthrop University.
Biography
Early life
Edward Southey Joynes was born on March 21, 1834 in Accomac, Virginia.[1][2] He studied in Berlin, Germany in 1856.[3]
Career
In 1858, he was Professor of Greek and Greek Literature as well as German at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.[2][4][5]
After the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he was hired by General Robert E. Lee to teach modern languages at Washington and Lee University (then known as Washington College) in Lexington, Virginia.[1][2][5] He then served as the first Professor of Modern Languages at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.[2][6] He was officially on the faculty roll in 1875.[6] Later, her was Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee and finally at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.[1][2]
He paved the way for the establishment of the Columbia City School System.[7] He was a co-founder and charter member of the Board of Trustees at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina.[1][7][8] Joynes Hall on its campus is named in his honor.[8]
While teaching literature, he believed undergraduates should not know much about the author of a given text; instead, this should be reserved to graduate students.[9]
Personal life and death
He was married to Eliza Waller Vest Joynes (1854–1914).[1] They had a son and a daughter:
- Walker Waller Joynes (1862–1926).[1]
- Louise Joynes Ragsdale (1875–1954).[1] She married J. Willard Ragsdale (1872–1919), who served as a Congressman from South Carolina from 1913 to 1919.[1]
He died on June 18, 1917 in Columbia, South Carolina.[1][2] He was buried at the Elmwood Memorial Gardens in Columbia.[1]
Bibliography
- A Practical Introduction to French Pronunciation:: Designed to Accompany the First Study of the Grammar (1867).[10]
- A German Grammar for Schools and Colleges (1904).[11]
- Heath's Practical German Grammar: In Progressive Lessons (1908).[12]
- Old Letters of a Student in Germany, 1856-57 (1916).[13]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 FindAGrave
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Amory Dwight Mayo, Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University, 1978, p. 302
- ↑ Michael O'Brien, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, Volume 2, p. 127
- ↑ The History of the College of William and Mary, Applewood Books, 2010, p. 81
- 1 2 Sean M. Heuvel, Lisa L. Heuvel, The College of William and Mary in the Civil War, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2013, p. 99
- 1 2 Vanderbilt University 1875 Faculty
- 1 2 Winthrop University Memories and Traditions: 1886-1945, Arcadia Publishing, 2000 p. 18
- 1 2 Winthrop University: Joynes Hall
- ↑ William H. Epstein (ed.), Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1991, p. 151
- ↑ Google Books
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External Links
- Education After the War From the Collections at the Library of Congress
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