David Murray (educator)

David Murray
David Murray
Born	1930
Died	1905
Nationality	American
Occupation	Educator

David Murray (デイヴィッド・モルレー, Deibiddo Marē^?, October 15, 1830–March 6, 1905)^[1] was an American educator and government adviser in Meiji period Japan.^[2]

Early life

Murray graduated from Union College in 1852.^[3]

Educator

In 1857-1863, Murray was as principal of The Albany Academy in New York. He was a professor at Rutgers College in New Jersey from 1863 through 1873.^[3]

In Japan, he was Superintendent of Educational Affairs in the Imperial Ministry of Education from 1873 through 1879.^[3]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about David Murray, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 40+ works in 100+ publications in 2 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.^[4]

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

• Petroleum its History and Properties (1862)
• Manual of Land Surveying : with Tables (1872)
• Japanese Education, Introductory chapter (1876)
• The Story of Japan (1894)
• The Development of Modern Education in Japan (1904)
• Japan. Continuing the History to the Close of 1905, with the Provisions of the Treaty of Portsmouth Between Russia and Japan (1906)

Notes

1. ^ Library of Congress authority file, David Murray, n85-142738
2. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Murray, David" in Japan encyclopedia, p. 669 at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Chamberlain, William Isaac. (1915). In Memoriam, David Murray, p. 15.
4. ^ WorldCat Identities: Murray, David 1830-1905

References

• Chamberlain, William Isaac. (1915). In Memoriam, David Murray, Ph.D., LL. D., Superintendent of Educational Affairs in the Empire of Japan, and Adviser to the Japanese Imperial Minister of Education, 1873-1879. New York: private printing. U.S. Library of Congress, online full-text; OCLC 7578354
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

Further reading

• Akashi, Norio. (1964). The Murray Mission to Japan 1873-1879, a Study in Cultural Relations. Thesis (M.S.), University of Wisconsin–Madison. OCLC 608618069

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Date of birth	1839
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