biography
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Tappan, Henry (Philip)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1805–81)
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| biography:
| University president and philosopher, born in Rhinebeck on the Hudson, New York, USA. He gained international recognition as a philosopher with his works on free will in the 1830s and 1840s. As president of the University of Michigan (1852–63), he helped develop it into a great research institution modelled on German universities. |
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