George Washburn (educator)

George Washburn.

George Washburn (March 1, 1833, Middleboro, Massachusetts - February 15, 1915^[1]) was an American educator, president of Robert College.^[2]

Biography

Washburn graduated from Amherst College in 1855, and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1859. He became professor of philosophy in Robert College, Constantinople, in 1868, was acting president there 1870-1877, and became president in 1877. He was an authority on the political questions of southeastern Europe. In 1876 he was instrumental, together with Dr. Albert Long, in sounding the first alarm and publicizing the Turkish massacres in Bulgaria.^[3] During the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, in 1893, he delivered an address on Mohammedanism. He contributed many articles to English and American periodicals. He is all so the Founder Principal of American College, Madurai.

Notes

1. "Washburn, George". Dictionary of American Biography. Comprehensive Index. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990.
2. Washburn, George (1909). Fifty Years in Constantinople and Recollections of Robert College (1 ed.). Boston & New York: Houghton Mufflin Company. Retrieved 19 March 2016. via Internet Archive
3. See Pears, Edwin (1916). Forty Years in Constantinople, The Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears 1873-1915 (1 ed.). London: Herbert Jenkins Limited. p. 16. Retrieved 31 March 2016. via Internet Archive

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Washburn, George". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.

External links

• Works by George Washburn, at Unz.org