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Name
  
Nathaniel Moore


Succeeded by
  
Charles King

Books
  
Ancient mineralogy

Nathaniel Fish Moore Nathaniel Fish Moore Columbia University Libraries

Born
  
December 25, 1782 Newton, Illinois (
1782-12-25
)

Died
  
1872, Hudson, New York, United States

Preceded by
  
William Alexander Duer

Nathaniel Fish Moore (December 25, 1782 – April 27, 1872) was the eighth president of Columbia College; he had earlier been a lawyer and served on the faculty. He was the nephew of the college's former president Benjamin Moore.

In 1820, Moore began his career at Columbia College as a professor of Greek and Latin. He was appointed the first full-time Librarian of the College in 1838. Four years later, Moore was elected the eighth president of the college, resigning under unremarkable circumstances in 1849.

Selected publications

  • Ancient mineralogy; or, An inquiry respecting mineral substances mentioned by the ancients: with occasional remarks on the uses to which they were applied. 1834. ; 2nd edition. 1859. 
  • Lectures on the Greek language and literature. 1835. 
  • A historical sketch of Columbia University, in the city of New-York. 1846. 
  • Moore, Nathaniel Fish (1946). Pargellis, Stanley; Butler, Ruth Lapham, eds. Diary; a trip from New York to the falls of St. Anthony in 1845. 

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