Nathaniel Fish Moore | |
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| 8thPresident of Columbia University | |
| In office 1842–1849 | |
| Preceded by | William Alexander Duer |
| Succeeded by | Charles King |
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| Born | (1782-12-25)December 25, 1782 |
| Died | April 27, 1872(1872-04-27) (aged 89) |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
Nathaniel Fish Moore (December 25, 1782 – April 27, 1872)[1] was the eighth president ofColumbia College; he had earlier been a lawyer and served on the faculty. He was the nephew of the college's former presidentBenjamin Moore.
Moore earned hisAB at Columbia in 1802, during which time his uncleBenjamin Moore served as president of the college.[citation needed] He was promoted to MA in 1805.[2]
In 1817, Moore began his career at Columbia College as an adjunct professor and in 1820 was named a professor of Greek and Latin.[3] In 1830 became titled the Jay Professor of the Greek Language and Literature.[4]
Moore resigned his professorship in 1835 to travel to Europe and the Holy Land, and was appointed as the first full-time Librarian of the College in 1838 upon his return.[5]
Four years later, in 1842, Moore was elected the eighth president of the college, resigning under unremarkable circumstances in 1849.[6]
After visiting theGreat Exhibition in London in 1851, he became interested in photography,[7] and was one of the first amateur photographers in New York City.[8] He was reportedly so interested in his new hobby “that he frequently came to dinner wearing cotton gloves, because his hands were so stained with photographic chemicals.”[9]
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