Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

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Benjamin ide Wheeler, Greek scholar, philologist and president of the University of California, was born July 15, 1854 at Randolph, Massachusetts. He attended Thornton Academy and Colby Academy prior to entering Brown University. Upon his graduation in 1875, he taught in Providence High School for two years, then became a tutor at Brown from 1879 to 1881. He continued his studies in Germany, at Leipzig, Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin from 1881 to 1885, obtaining his doctorate, summa cum laude, at Heidelberg in 1885. After travelling in Greece during the spring and summer of 1885, he went to Harvard as instructor in German and Latin. In 1886 he accepted a professorship at Cornell, teaching Greek and comparative philology, and publishing many related articles. In 1895 he was a member of the staff of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Wheeler turned down tempting offers from Colgate University and other schools to accept the presidency of the young University of California in 1899. This post he held until his resignation twenty years later in 1919, having seen the University expand in students, staff and physical structure. After his retirement, he resumed his teaching career, and in 1920 travelled to Japan as a member of a commission appointed by the Board of Trade on the Pacific Coast to attempt to strengthen relationships between Japan and the United States. Wheeler died in 1927.

Included among his publications are: Alexander the Great; Dionysus and Immortality; The Greek Noun Accent; and Introduction to the Study of Language.

From the guide to the Benjamin Ide Wheeler Papers, 1854-1927, (The Bancroft Library)
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referencedIn Stanford University, President's Office, Rhodes Scholarship Committee, records, 1904-1916 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927. Benjamin Ide Wheeler letters to Lawrence H. Wilson : Berkeley, Calif., 1911 Feb. 12-15. UC Berkeley Libraries
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referencedIn Henry Rushton Fairclough papers, 1886-1937 Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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referencedIn George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst papers, 1849-1926 Bancroft Library
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referencedIn Fahey-Sloan Family Collection, 1880-1960 University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
referencedIn Fairchild, Charles S. (Charles Stebbins), 1842-1924. Fairchild collection, [18th century-ca. 1928]. Churchill County Museum
referencedIn Benjamin Ide Wheeler Award Committee. Benjamin Ide Wheeler Award Committee minutes, 1928-1963. UC Berkeley Libraries
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referencedIn Hearst, George, 1820-1891. George and Phoebe Apperson Hearst papers, 1849-1926. Bancroft Library
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creatorOf Benjamin Ide Wheeler Papers, 1854-1927 Bancroft Library
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creatorOf Ham, Roswell Gray, 1891-1983. Roswell Gray Ham papers, [ca. 1913-1941]. UC Berkeley Libraries
referencedIn Walter Lionel Pforzheimer collection, 1487-1997 Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
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creatorOf Willey, Samuel H. (Samuel Hopkins), 1821-1914. Samuel H. Willey letter : San Francisco, to President Benjamin I. Wheeler, Berkeley : ALS, 1902 Dec. 23. UC Berkeley Libraries
referencedIn Arthur Twining Hadley, president of Yale University, records, 1899-1921 Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
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referencedIn Douglas Tilden Papers, 1860-1970 Bancroft Library
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referencedIn Portraits of University of California individuals and groups, ca. 1850-[ongoing] Bancroft Library
referencedIn Theodore Roosevelt Papers, 1759-1993, (bulk 1878-1919) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Portrait photographs of George Rippey Stewart and Benjamin Ide Wheeler [graphic]. UC Berkeley Libraries
referencedIn George Lincoln Burr papers Cornell University Library
creatorOf Sherman, Edwin Allen, 1829-1914. Edwin Allen Sherman papers, 1872-1971, (bulk 1896-1913). UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927. Benjamin Ide Wheeler letter, 1898 December 22, to William J. Youngs. Cornell University Library
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