William Seymour Tyler
United States classical scholar
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William Seymour Tyler's Degrees
- Bachelors Classics Amherst College
- Masters Classics Amherst College
- PhD Classics University of Göttingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Seymour Tyler was the Amherst College, Massachusetts, historian during his tenure as professor of Latin, Greek, and Greek literature from 1832 to 1893. Biography He was born September 2, 1810, in Harford, Pennsylvania, the son of Joab and Nabby née Seymour Tyler. He matriculated at Amherst in 1829, graduated in 1830 , and completed his M.A. in . He tutored at Amherst from 1832 to 1834 and in 1836. He was a professor of Latin and Greek at Amherst from 1836 to 1847, and professor of Greek from 1847 to 1893. He was named professor emeritus in 1893 . From 1835 to 1836 he studied theology under Dr. Skinner in New York, and on September 4, 1839, he married Amelia Ogden, daughter of Mason Whiting of New York. They had four sons. He was ordained a minister in North Amherst, Massachusetts on October 16, 1859. He received the honorary DD degree from Harvard University and two honorary LL.D. degrees from Amherst and Harvard . He died in Amherst on November 19, 1897.
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