James Mason Hoppin
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Biography
James Mason Hoppin was born at Providence, Rhode Island on January 17, 1820.[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1840 (where he was a member of Skull and Bones,[2]) from Harvard Law School in 1842, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1845. He studied for some time abroad; and was pastor of a Congregational church at Salem, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1859.[1] From 1861 to 1879, he was professor of homiletics at Yale, where he was also professor of art history from 1879 to 1899, when he became professor emeritus. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.[3]
He died in New Haven, Connecticut on November 15, 1906, aged 86.[4]
Selected writings
- Old England: Its Art, Scenery, and People (1857)
- The Office and Work of the Christian Ministry (1869)
- Life of Rear-Admiral Andrew Hull Foote (1874)
- The Early Renaissance and Other Essays on Art Subjects (1892)
- Greek Art on Greek Soil (1897)
- The Reading of Shakespeare (1904)
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