# Joseph Addison Alexander > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joseph_Addison_Alexander > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Joseph_Addison_Alexander.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison_Alexander > Source revision: 1330995143 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American clergyman and biblical scholar}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata = ALL | dateformat = mdy | suppressfields = citizenship | occupation = [Educator](/source/Educator), [clergyman](/source/clergyman) and [biblical scholar](/source/biblical_scholar) }} '''Joseph Addison Alexander''' (April 24, 1809 – January 28, 1860) was an American [clergyman](/source/clergyman) and [biblical scholar](/source/biblical_scholar). ==Early life and education== He was born in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania) on April 24, 1809, the third son of [Archibald Alexander](/source/Archibald_Alexander) and Janetta Waddel Alexander, brother to [James Waddel Alexander](/source/James_Waddel_Alexander) and [William Cowper Alexander](/source/William_Cowper_Alexander). He graduated at the College of New Jersey (now [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University)) with the first honor, in the class of 1826, having devoted himself especially to the study of [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language) and other languages. ==Career== Along with Robert Bridges Patton, Alexander established Edgehill seminary in [Mercer County, New Jersey](/source/Mercer_County%2C_New_Jersey), and in 1830 he was made adjunct professor of ancient languages in Princeton College, holding the professorship until 1833. In 1834, he became an assistant to Dr. [Charles Hodge](/source/Charles_Hodge), professor of oriental and biblical literature in the [Princeton Theological Seminary](/source/Princeton_Theological_Seminary), and in 1838, he became associate professor of oriental and biblical literature there, succeeding Dr. Hodge in that chair in 1840 and being transferred in 1851 to the chair of biblical and ecclesiastical history, and in 1859 to that of [Hellenistic](/source/Hellenistic_literature) and [New Testament](/source/New_Testament) literature, which he occupied until his death at [Princeton](/source/Princeton_Township%2C_New_Jersey) on January 28, 1860. Alexander was distinguished in [Oriental](/source/Orientalism) scholarship as well as in [biblical](/source/biblical) learning, and was a thorough master of the modern European languages. He had been ordained as a [Presbyterian](/source/Presbyterianism) minister in 1839, and was well known for his [pulpit](/source/pulpit) eloquence. He was the author of ''The Earlier Prophecies of Isaiah'' (1846), ''The Later Prophecies of Isaiah'' (1847), and an abbreviation of these two volumes, ''Isaiah Illustrated and Explained'' (2 vols., 1851), ''The Psalms Translated and Explained'' (3 vols., 1850), ''Commentary on Acts'' (2 vols., 1857) and ''Commentary on Mark'' (1858). After his death there appeared his two volumes of ''Sermons'' (1860), ''Commentary on Matthew'' (1861) and ''Notes on New Testament Literature'' (1861). Henry Carrington Alexander prepared a biography first published in 1869. He was elected to the [American Philosophical Society](/source/American_Philosophical_Society) in 1845.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=1844&year-max=1845&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-04-12|website=search.amphilsoc.org}} ==References== ;Citations {{reflist|25em|refs= {{harvnb|Alexander|1870}} {{harvnb|Johnson|1906|p=76}} {{harvnb|Chisholm|1911}} {{harvnb|Julian|1907|p=39}} {{harvnb|McKim|2007|p=107}} }} ;Sources * {{cite book | last = Alexander | first = Henry Carrington | author-link = | title = The life of Joseph Addison Alexander | work = [Making of America](/source/Making_of_America) | location = New York | publisher = C. Scribner | year = 1870 | url = http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGU9827.0001 | access-date = 2007-01-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120910210349/http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGU9827.0001 | archive-date = 2012-09-10 }} [https://archive.org/stream/thelifeofjosepha01alexuoft#page/n9/mode/2up Alt URL] * {{EB1911|wstitle=Alexander, Joseph Addison|volume=1|page=565}} * {{BDA1906 |wstitle= Alexander, Joseph Addison |volume= 1 |page=76 |short=}} * {{cite dictionary | last = Julian | first = John | author-link = John Julian, D.D. | title = Alexander, Joseph Addison | dictionary = [A Dictionary of Hymnology](/source/A_Dictionary_of_Hymnology) | date = June 1907 | page = 39 | location = London | publisher = John Murray | url = | access-date = }} {{PD-notice}} * {{cite book | last = McKim | first = Donald K. | title = Dictionary of major biblical interpreters | chapter = Alexander, J. A. | year = 2007 | page = 107 | location = Downers Grove, Ill. | publisher = IVP Academic | edition = 2nd | isbn = 978-0-8308-2927-9 }} ==External links== {{Wikisource}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20171031103140/http://www.richardsibbes.com/Princeton.Cemetery.Alexanders.htm Photographic tour of Joseph Addison Alexander's grave at Princeton Cemetery] {{Portal bar|Biography|Bible|Reformed Christianity|Judaism|Philadelphia}} {{Princeton Theological Seminary}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Joseph Addison}} Category:1809 births Category:1860 deaths Category:19th-century American male writers Category:19th-century American non-fiction writers Category:19th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians Category:19th-century Christian biblical scholars Category:19th-century American Presbyterian ministers Category:American Calvinist and Reformed theologians Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:American religious writers Category:Bible commentators Category:Burials at Princeton Cemetery Category:Calvinist and Reformed writers Category:Educators from Philadelphia Category:People from Princeton, New Jersey Category:Presbyterian writers Category:Princeton Theological Seminary faculty Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Princeton University faculty Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:19th-century American biblical scholars --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Joseph Addison Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison_Alexander) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison_Alexander?action=history)). 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