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Joel was born on May 17, 1875 in New York City, New York, United States, the oldest of four sons of Elias and Sarah (Barnett) Spingarn. His father, a wholesale tobacco merchant, was born in Austria, his mother in the north of England.
Brought up with his three brothers in a cultured and moderately affluent home, Joel attended the Collegiate Institute of Dr. Julius Sachs in New York City and afterwards spent a year at the City College of New York. He then entered Columbia College, where he graduated with the A. B. degree in 1895. After a year of postgraduate study at Harvard Spingarn returned to Columbia, where he received his Ph. D. degree in 1899.
In 1899 Spingarn was appointed assistant in the new department of comparative literature at Columbia, headed by George E. Woodberry, who more than any other man influenced Spingarn's life. He was promoted to be adjunct professor in 1904 and professor in 1909. Two years later his career as a teacher at Columbia came to a close with his dismissal after an altercation with President Nicholas Murray Butler.
The dispute arose from several circumstances, including the recent merger of the department of comparative literature and the department of English, to which merger Spingarn had been vigorously opposed, and his refusal to recognize the authority of the new department. At base, however, it was a clash of two uncompromising personalities.
Even before leaving Columbia Spingarn had displayed an interest in public affairs. An ardent Bull Mooser, he was a delegate to both the 1912 and 1916 Progressive national conventions.
Spingarn's reputation as a scholar began in 1899 with the publication of his History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance. In this and in his subsequent The New Criticism (1911) and Creative Criticism (1917) he followed the critical principles of the Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce, of which he was the leading American exponent.
In his final years he was busy with the study, the collecting, and the exhibition of flowers, particularly the clematis, on which he was recognized as America's foremost authority.
He died at his home in New York City of a cerebral thrombosis and was buried in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Joel Elias Spingarn helped realize the concept of a unified black movement by joining the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was one of the first Jewish leaders of that organization, serving as chairman of its board. He was among the leading spirits in the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909). One of its officers for many years and its president from 1930 until his death. During World War I he led a successful movement to set up a training program for Negro officers. It was he who founded (1913) the Spingarn Medal given every year to the Negro of greatest service to his race. Spingarn's own service to that race was his finest achievement.
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He was an influential liberal Republican.
His interests went in many other directions, while the final decades of his life were devoted largely to his love of nature.
Spingarn himself was more interested in the theory of criticism than in its practice.
He had flashing dark eyes, dark hair waving over a high forehead, was tall, slender.
In December of 1895 he married Amy, daughter of David L. Einstein and sister of Lewis Einstein, American diplomat and scholar.
