James Robinson Boise

James Robinson Boise (January 27, 1815, Blandford, Massachusetts – February 9, 1895, Chicago) was an American classicist. He was the author of several Greek text books.

James Robinson Boise
Born27 January 1815 
Died9 February 1895  (aged 80)
Employer

Biography

He graduated from Brown University in 1840, and served there as tutor of Latin and Greek and as a professor of Greek until 1850. In 1852, he became professor of Greek language and literature in the University of Michigan. In 1868, he was called to the same chair in the old University of Chicago.[1] In 1877, he became professor of New Testament Interpretation in the Baptist Union Theological Seminary. On the establishment of the new University of Chicago, he was made professor emeritus of New Testament Greek.[2] Robinson Boise was a strong supporter of women's education; his daughter Alice Robinson Boise Wood was the first woman to (informally) attend classes at the University of Michigan in 1866-7 and in 1872 became the first woman to graduate from the Old University of Chicago.[3]

Work

He published several classical text books, including editions with original notes of Xenophon's Anabasis and the first six books of Homer's Iliad, besides notes on the Epistles to the Galatians, Romans, etc. His texts on the Greek language included Greek Syntax and First Lessons in Greek.[1]

Notes
  1. Wilson & Fiske 1900.
  2. Reynolds 1921.
  3. "Alice Robinson Boise Wood". dx.doi.org. Retrieved 2019-01-22.

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