A Memorial Of Gessner Harrison: M. D., Professor Of Ancient Languages In The University Of Virginia; Volume 262
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A Treatise On The Greek Prepositions: And On The Cases Of Nouns With Which These Are Used
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Gessner Harrison
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Gessner Harrison was an American educator. He was faculty chairman at the University of Virginia, serving from 1828 to 1859.
Background
Gessner Harrison was born on June 26, 1862, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the second son of Peachy and Mary (Stuart) Harrison. His father, a physician in large practice, universally esteemed for his learning and skill, named him for the Swiss poet of liberty, Salomon Gessner. The boy was quiet and sedate, diffident and retiring, and from an early age devoted to reading.
Education
Gessner began his formal schooling at the age of four, and at eight was inducted into the Latin grammar. Instructed by a succession of Presbyterian ministers who demanded nothing short of absolute accuracy, he made uniform progress in mathematics, Greek, and Latin. In March 1825 he matriculated with his elder brother at the newly opened University of Virginia, where he continued as a student for three years. He and his brother did not sympathize with the riotous attitude of their fellow students, and they won a sort of student immortality by declining, on the grounds of religious scruples, the great Mr. Jefferson’s rotatory invitation to Sunday dinner. In July 1828 Gessner graduated in the school of Greek and at the same time received the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
Career
After graduation Gessner Harrison expected to return to his native town to practise with his father. He was appointed, however, at the suggestion of his preceptor, Prof. George Long, to succeed the latter in the chair of ancient languages, and, in spite of vigorous opposition occasioned by his youth and total lack of experience, entered the faculty of the University of Virginia at the age of twenty-one.
His first ten years of sendee at the University were the most tempestuous in its history. As the youngest member of the faculty and perhaps the most out-spoken in his denunciations of disorder, he was subjected to personal insults and violence, but he bore himself with extraordinary fortitude and self-control and was five times chosen as chairman of the faculty, serving twelve years in all. He deserves no small part of the credit for the adjustment of the relations between teachers and students, the growing helpfulness of mutual cooperation, and the birth of the honor system. Early in his career he reorganized the content and methods of the school of ancient languages.
Harrison's Exposition of Some of the Laws of the Latin Grammar 0852) and his later Treatise on the Greek Prepositions and the Cases of the Nouns with Which These are Used (1858) show immense toil, and, antedating as they did the formulation of exact canons, some points of striking originality. His pamphlet, The Geography of Ancient Italy and Southern Greece (1834), became a standard textbook in many colleges and universities.
After thirty-one years of unbroken service, Harrison resigned from his chair and established a boarding-school for boys upon a plantation in Nelson County, Virginia. The life was suited to his tastes, and the revenues he was justified in expecting were needed for the expenses of his large family. His plans and hopes were frustrated by the Civil War, however, and his anxieties augmented by the desperate illness of his eldest son, invalided home, whom he nursed with unremitting care. He died in the spring of 1862, in his fifty-fifth year.
Harrison was a man of deep religious convictions and of sincere piety in every relation of life.
Personality
In person, Harrison was a small, slight man, galant in manner and movement. His face, though engaging, was rather homely, but his nark eyes were singularly beautiful, and the tones of his voice exceedingly sweet. His mind was slow in its processes, but accurate and logical, and charactered by a rugged honesty which endeared him to colleagues and pupils alike.
Interests
Writers
Among Harrison's favorite books was Horne Tooke’s Diversions of Parley, which undoubtedly awoke in him his lifelong interest in philology.
Connections
In December 1830 Harrison married Eliza Lewis Tucker, daughter of his colleague, George Tucker, professor of moral philosophy. Of this union were born six sons and three daughters.