Background
Robinson, Ezekial Gilman was born on March 23, 1815 in South Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ezekial and Cynthia (Slack) Robinson.
president professor theologian Baptist clergyman
Robinson, Ezekial Gilman was born on March 23, 1815 in South Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Ezekial and Cynthia (Slack) Robinson.
Graduate Brown U., 1838, honorary Doctor of Divinity, 1853. Graduate Newton Theological Institution, 1842. Honorary Doctor of Laws, Harvard, 1866.
He preached at Norfolk, Virginia, and at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was professor of Hebrew and biblical interpretation in the Western Theological Seminary (Covington, Kentucky), and in 1849 accepted a call to a church in Cincinnati, Ohio. Three years later he was appointed professor of theology in Rochester Theological Seminary and in 1868 was made its president. From 1872 to 1889 he was president of Brown University, and from 1893 to his death he occupied the chair of ethics and apologetics at the University of Chicago.
He edited the Christian Review from 1859 to 1864. Some of the highlights of his presidency at Brown include:
Held the Chair of Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics
Erection of the Robinson Library (1878). Slater Hall; Sayles Hall.
And an addition to Rhode Island Hall
College funds were increased
Delivered the baccalaureate sermons
He delivered a series of lectures on the History of Intellectual Philosophy and Metaphysical Science in Manning Hall
Preached in pulpits across Providence.
Married Harriet Richards Parker, February 21, 1844.
