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Edgar J. Goodspeed

American theologian & scholar (1871-1962)

Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (October 23, 1871 – January 13, 1962) was an American theologian and scholar of Greek and the New Testament, and Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago until his retirement. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago, whose collection of New Testament manuscripts he enriched by his searches.²

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Born Oct 23, 1871, died Jan 13, 1962.¹

About

The University's collection is now named in his honor.

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Companies

Society of Biblical LiteraturePresident 1919 to 1919¹⁵

Early life and education

1898University of Chicago Doctor of Philosophy^{3 4}
Date not recordedDenison University Bachelor of Arts^{3 4}

Education

He earned a B.A. from Denison University in Granville, Ohio 1890, and he then studied Semitics at Yale for one year under William Rainey Harper. A little later, Harper was appointed as the first president of the University of Chicago, and Goodspeed moved to Chicago and continued his graduate studies at this new institution, where Goodspeed's father was one of the founders and secretary of the Board of Trustees. He was a post-graduate fellow at the University of Chicago from 1892, and he received his Doctor of Biblical Studies degree in 1897.

Goodspeed received his Ph.D. in 1898 at The University of Chicago. He spent the following two years abroad, traveling and studying in Germany, England, the Netherlands, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece.

In 1928, Goodspeed received a doctorate in Divinity from the Denison University (Doctor honoris causa).

Academic work

While pursuing graduate work, Goodspeed taught classics at two Chicago-area schools, the Morgan Park Academy and South Side Academy. He taught In classical languages at the Morgan Park Academy in 1891 and 1892 and at the South Side Academy from 1894 to 1898. He taught Biblical and Patristic Greek at the University of Chicago starting in 1898.

Upon his return to Chicago in 1900, he again joined the University faculty and rose steadily to become Professor of Biblical and Patristic Greek in 1915. In 1919 he served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. When his New Testament colleague Ernest DeWitt Burton was appointed president of the University of Chicago in 1923, Goodspeed succeeded him as Chairman of the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. From 1929 to 1937 Goodspeed was chairman of the department of New Testament studies at the University of Chicago. In 1937, Goodspeed became an emeritus member of the faculty and retired with his wife, Elfleda Bond Goodspeed, to a home in Bel-Air, California.

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Career

Occupation: orientalist, theologian, hellenist, translator, writer, Bible translator, patristic scholar, New Testament scholar.⁷

1937 to 1962Emeritus^{4 6}
1919President, Society of Biblical Literature⁵
1919Chairperson, Society of Biblical Literature⁶
1901 to 1937University teacher, University of Chicago⁵

Known for: Story of the bible, Story of the new testament, An American Translation, How to Read the Bible, Short Bible.⁸

Personal life

BornOct 23, 1871, Quincy^{9 10}
DiedJan 13, 1962, Los Angeles^{10 11}
CitizenshipUnited States^{10 12}

Awards

1937emeritus^{4 13}
Date not recordedhonorary doctor of the Denison University^{13 14}

Sources

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