George Washburn

FIFTY YEARS IN CONSTANTINOPLE

And Recollections of Robert College

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Fifty Years in Constantinople" has been written at the request of many friends of Robert College. It embodies a history of the College from its foundation to the close of its fortieth year, 1903. I have chosen to make it a record of personal recollections, because this seemed to be the only way in which I could write freely of events and personalities as they appeared to me at the time, without compromising the present administration of the College or making it responsible in any way for my opinions or actions.It has been my purpose to make it as far as possible a history of the College, but the picture of a college in Constantinople during these years could not be drawn without a background of incidents, personalities and events, such as would have no place in the story of a college in America. On the other hand, it did not seem wise to make the background more attractive than the picture, or even to set the latter in the frame of a detailed history of the Turkish Empire. The Introduction is a review of the events of the last fifty years which have led to the recent revolution in Constantinople.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: FORUM TAURI
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9786057462169
• ISBN-10: 6057462165
• Artikelnr.: 71600283

Autorenporträt

George Washburn (March 1, 1833 - February 15, 1915) was an American educator, Christian missionary, and second president of Robert College.He initially went to Constantinople as the treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, an early American Christian missionary organization and, in 1859, married Henrietta Loraine, the daughter of Robert College president Cyrus Hamlin. Washburn returned to the Andover Seminary to complete his education in 1862, and was ordained as a Congregational minister the next year. Being appointed as a missionary for the American Board of Commissioners in Constantinople, he returned to the city, and subsequently became professor of philosophy in Robert College.