Benjamin Ide Wheeler

Benjamin Ide Wheeler

Benjamin Ide Wheeler (Randolph, Massachusetts, 1854 – 1927) [cite book |title=Benjamin Ide Wheeler |publisher=Columbia Encyclopedia | accessdate=2006-10-26 | language=English ] was a Greek and comparative philology professor at Cornell University as well as President of the University of California from 1899 to 1919.

Wheeler graduated from Brown University in 1875. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire he was a member of Mayor Eugene Schmitz's Committee of Fifty.

Under Wheeler the University of California underwent one of its periods of greatest growth. He also expanded the powers of the president, gaining the power to appoint all faculty.

The University of California, Berkeley named Wheeler Hall in his honor. A Liberty ship was also named in his honor, the SS Benjamin Ide Wheeler.

Publications

*Der griechische Nominalaccent (1885)
*Analogy, and the Scope of its Application in Language (1887)
*Principles of Language Growth (1891)
*Citation | last = Strong | first =Herbert Augustus | last2=Logeman | first2=Willem Sijbrand|last3 =Wheeler | first3 =Benjamin Ide | last4 = Paul | first4 = Hermann | year =1891 | title =Introduction to the Study of the History of Language | publication-place = London | publisher =Longmans, Green, & Co. | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=6KxEAAAAIAAJ
*The Organization of Higher Education in the United States (1897)
*Dionysos and Immortality (the Ingersoll Lecture for 1898)
*Citation | last =Wheeler | first =Benjamin Ide | year = 1900 | title = Alexander the Great: The Merging of East and West in Universal History | publication-place = New York | publisher = G. P. Putnam's Sons | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=mNEEAAAAMAAJ
*The Whence and Whither of the Modern Science of Language (1905)

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