Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge
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| Born |
March 26, 1867 Windsor, Ontario |
| Died | June 1, 1940 (aged 73) Manhattan, New York City |
| Education |
Amherst College Union Theological Seminary Frederick William University |
| Children |
Frederick James Woodbridge John Woodbridge Donald Woodbridge Helena Woodbridge |
Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (March 26, 1867 – June 1, 1940) was a teacher at various American universities. Woodbridge considered himself a naïve realist, deeply impressed with Santayana. He spent much of his career as dean of Columbia University, where a residence hall and a professorship in philosophy are named in his honor. He was editor of the The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods. David and Lillian Swenson, translators of some of the works of Søren Kierkegaard, dedicated Concluding Unscientific Postscript, (1941) to Professor Woodbridge.
He was born on March 26, 1867 in Windsor, Ontario to James Woodbridge and Melissa Ella Bingham. In 1869 his family moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 1885 he enrolled at Amherst College where he studied philosophy and religion under Charles Edward Garman. He graduated from Amherst in 1889 and then he enrolled at the Union Theological Seminary. In 1892 he left Union on a fellowship and went to Germany to study philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He returned to the United States in 1894. He took a teaching position at the University of Minnesota. He married Helena Belle Adams of Cincinnati, Ohio on June 25, 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. They had 4 children, Frederick James Woodbridge, John Woodbridge, Donald Woodbridge, and Helena Woodbridge.
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