biography
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Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1836–1921)
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| biography:
| Protestant theologian and educator, born in Rochester, New York, USA. The son of a newspaper publisher, he graduated from Yale (1857) and the Rochester Theological Seminary (1859) and held Baptist pastorates in Massachusetts and Ohio. President of the Rochester Seminary (1872–1912), he produced theological works, including Systematic Theology (3 vols, 1886), that sought a middle ground between conservative and liberal doctrine. He helped interest John D Rockefeller, a former parishioner, in higher education, and Rockefeller later founded the University of Chicago. |
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