Henry Drisler

Background

Henry Drisler was born on Staten Island, New York on the 27th of December 1818.

Education

Drisler was educated at Columbia College.

Career

After graduation in 1839, Henry taught classics in the Columbia grammar school for four years, and was then appointed tutor in classics in the college. In 1845 he became adjunct professor of Latin and Greek there, in 1857 was appointed to the new separate chair of Latin language and literature, and ten years later succeeded Dr Charles Anthon as Jay professor of Greek language and literature.

He was acting president in 1867 and in 1888-1889, and from 1890 to his retirement as professor emeritus in 1894 was dean of the school of arts.

Dr Drisler completed and supplemented Dr Anthon's labours as an editor of classical texts. His criticisms and corrections of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, of which he brought out a revised American edition in 1846, won his name a place on the title-page of the British edition in 1879, and in 1870 he published a revised and enlarged edition of Yonge's English-Greek Lexicon. He was ardently opposed to slavery, and brilliantly refuted The Bible View of Slavery, written by Bishop J. H. Hopkins of Vermont, in a Reply (1863), which meets the bishop on purely Biblical ground and displays the wide range of Dr Drisler's scholarship.

Achievements

• Drisler's chief work was his edition of "Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon".

Works

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  • The Protagoras of Plato (Harper's Classical Series)

    (New and revised edition of 1892, following the 1881 origi...)

  • Bible view of slavery, by John H. Hopkins, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont, examined

    (This volume is produced from digital images from the Corn...)

  • Classical Studies In Honor Of Henry Drisler

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • Charles Anthon, Ll. D., Late Jay-professor Of The Greek Language And Literature In Columbia College: A Commemorative Discourse, Prepared And Delivered ... Of The Trustees And Alumni Of The College
  • Principia Latina.--: Part I. a First Latin Course. Comprehending Grammar, Delectus, and Exercise-Book. With Vocabularies
  • A First Latin Course: Comprehending Grammar, Delectus, and Exercise-Book: With Vocabularies
  • A Reply to the "Bible View of Slavery, by J.H. Hopkins, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont"

Religion

Drisler was deeply religious in nature and always a strong churchman.