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John Harvard (* 26. November 1607 im London Borough of Southwark, England; † 14. September oder 24. September 1638 in Charlestown, Massachusetts) war ein englischer puritanischer Theologe, der 1637 nach Neuengland ausgewandert war. Nach ihm wurde die Harvard University benannt.
John Harvard (1607–1638) was an English dissenting minister in colonial New England whose deathbed bequest to the "schoale or colledge" founded two years earlier by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed upon formerly to be built at Cambridge shalbee called ...
John Harvard (born November 1607, London, Eng.—died Sept. 14, 1638, Charlestown [part of Boston], Mass. [U.S.]) was a New England colonist whose bequest permitted the firm establishment of Harvard College. John Harvard was the son of a butcher and of the daughter of a cattle merchant and alderman of Stratford-on-Avon.
17. Mai 2018 · Encyclopedia of World Biography. John Harvard >Little is known about the short life of John Harvard (1607-1638). Yet his >legacy has continued down through the centuries as the principal benefactor >of Harvard University [1], arguably one of the world's most highly respected >centers of learning.
John Harvard is a sculpture in bronze by Daniel Chester French in Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, honoring clergyman John Harvard (1607–1638), whose deathbed [2] bequest to the "schoale or Colledge" recently undertaken by the Massachusetts Bay Colony was so gratefully received that it was consequently ordered "that the Colledge agreed ...
Die Harvard University (kurz Harvard) ist eine amerikanische Privatuniversität in Cambridge im Großraum Boston in Massachusetts. Sie gilt als eine der angesehensten Universitäten der Welt und wurde nach dem Theologen John Harvard benannt.
1607: John Harvard, the College’s future namesake and first benefactor, was baptized at St. Saviour’s Church (now Southwark Cathedral), London. 1635: John Harvard received his M.A. from Cambridge University, England. 1636: First College in American colonies founded.
