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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 ...
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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 ...
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11. März 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On March 13, 1639, the college was renamed Harvard College after clergyman John Harvard, a University of Cambridge alumnus who had willed the new school £779 pounds sterling and his library of some 400 books. In the 1640s, Harvard College established the Harvard Indian College, which educated Native American students. It was only ...
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- 1636
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- 1782
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.
The young minister who left his library and half of his estate to a local college in 1638 was John Harvard, a 31-year-old clergyman from Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was the first major benefactor of the nascent Harvard College, which has been influential in American politics and culture for more than two centuries.
