Goodspeed, Edgar J. Papers 1853-1961

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Goodspeed, Edgar J. Papers 1853-1961

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Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, New Testament scholar, writer, and Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. The Goodspeed papers consist of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, clippings, reviews, and items of a miscellaneous nature. The primary focus of the collection is on Goodspeed’s literary and professional work.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

Goodspeed, Edgar J. (Edgar Johnson), 1871-1962

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Goodspeed was born Oct. 23, 1871 in Quincy, IL; began teaching at Univ. of Chicago in 1894; he later became professor of the Bible and Patristic Greek; wrote more than fifty books, including translations of the Old and New Testaments, The story of the Bible (1957), How to read the Bible (1946), A life of Jesus (1950), and an autobiography titled, As I remember (1953); died Jan. 13, 1962. From the description of Papers, 1950-1951. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat reco...