Levi Hedge

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Levi Hedge (April 19, 1766 – January 3, 1844) was an American educator.

Biography

Levi Hedge was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1792. His independent stand against hazing while still a student was instrumental in ridding Harvard of the injustice associated with its "hat law".^[1]

He was appointed a tutor at Harvard in 1795. In 1801, he married Mary Kneeland, with whom he had eight children, including Frederic Henry Hedge, who became a clergyman, transcendentalist, scholar of German literature, and also a Harvard professor. In 1810, Hedge became professor of logic and metaphysics. He published Elements of Logick (Boston, 1818), which went through many editions, and was translated into German. In 1827 he moved to the Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity. That year, also prepared an abridgment of Thomas Brown's Mental Philosophy (1827). An attack of paralysis compelled him to resign from Harvard in 1830. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1844.

Footnotes

↑ See Thwing (1879).

References

Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Hedge, Levi". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton
Thwing, C.F., "College Hazing", Scribners Monthly, Vol. 17, No.3, January 1879, pp. 331–334.

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Name	Hedge, Levi
Alternative names
Short description	Harvard professor of philosophy
Date of birth	19 April 1766
Place of birth	Hardwick, Massachusetts
Date of death	3 January 1844
Place of death	Cambridge, Massachusetts

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