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Increase Mather (/ ˈ m æ ð ər /; June 21, 1639 Old Style [page needed] – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701).
- Cotton Mather
- Samuel Willard (acting)
- Minister and author
August 1723 in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay) war ein puritanischer Pfarrer. Er spielte nicht nur eine politisch bedeutende Rolle in der Geschichte der Kolonie, aus der der heutige US-Bundesstaat Massachusetts hervorging, sondern auch in der Führung des Harvard College und in den Hexenprozessen von Salem.
26. März 2024 · Increase Mather (born June 21, 1639, Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony [U.S.]—died August 23, 1723, Boston) was a Boston Congregational minister, author, and educator, who was a determining influence in the councils of New England during the crucial period when leadership passed into the hands of the first native-born generation.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723). Even more than his illustrious son Cotton, Increase Mather, is representative of American Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England. As a leader of Boston’s ministry, he became the defender of Puritan orthodoxy during its decline; as president of Harvard, he guided the college through its most difficult period ...
Learn about Increase Mather, a prominent Puritan minister and leader in Boston and Massachusetts Bay Colony. Find out his role in the Salem Witch Trials, his views on spectral evidence, and his legacy in history and literature.
Learn about Increase Mather, Harvard's seventh president and the namesake of Mather House, through research by Mather students and faculty. Explore his political and religious contributions, his involvement in the Salem Witch Trials and his slaveholding, and the decision to name a House after him in 1966.
The Reverend Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 – August 23, 1723) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the federal state of Massachusetts).
