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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nathaniel_Fish_Moore > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nathaniel_Fish_Moore.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Fish_Moore > Source revision: 1350097734 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American university administrator}} {{Use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Nathaniel Fish Moore | image = NathanielFishMoorePortrait.png | order = | title = 8th [President of Columbia University](/source/President_of_Columbia_University) | term_start = 1842 | term_end = 1849 | predecessor = [William Alexander Duer](/source/William_Alexander_Duer) | successor = [Charles King](/source/Charles_King_(Columbia_University_president)) | birth_date = {{birth date|1782|12|25}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|1872|4|27|1782|12|25}} | death_place = [Hudson](/source/Hudson%2C_New_York), [New York](/source/New_York_(state)) | alma_mater = [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) | profession = | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Nathaniel Fish Moore''' (December 25, 1782 – April 27, 1872){{Cite web|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/james-w-moore/rev-john-moore-of-newtown-long-island-and-some-of-his-descendants-roo/page-17-rev-john-moore-of-newtown-long-island-and-some-of-his-descendants-roo.shtml|title = Read the eBook Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and some of his descendants by James W. Moore online for free (Page 17 of 86)}} was the eighth president of [Columbia College](/source/Columbia_College_of_Columbia_University); he had earlier been a lawyer and served on the faculty. He was the nephew of the college's former president [Benjamin Moore](/source/Benjamin_Moore_(bishop)). Moore earned his [AB](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) at Columbia in 1802, during which time his uncle [Benjamin Moore](/source/Benjamin_Moore_(bishop)) served as president of the college.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}} He was promoted to MA in 1805.{{Cite web |title=Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions {{!}} Nathaniel Fish Moore Photographs |url=https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/moore |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=exhibitions.library.columbia.edu}} thumb|left|A photograph of Moore from 1860 In 1817, Moore began his career at Columbia College as an adjunct professor and in 1820 was named a professor of Greek and Latin.{{Cite web |title=Moore Nathaniel Fish |url=https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/moore-nathaniel-fish/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Mineralogical Record |language=en-US}} In 1830 became titled the Jay Professor of the Greek Language and Literature.[https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00coluuoft/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22jay+professor%22 ''An historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York 1754-1876'']. New York: Columbia College (1876), page 62, accessed 26 April 2021. Moore resigned his professorship in 1835 to travel to Europe and the Holy Land, and was appointed as the first full-time Librarian of the College in 1838 upon his return.{{Cite web |title=Moore Nathaniel Fish |url=https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/moore-nathaniel-fish/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Mineralogical Record |language=en-US}} Four years later, in 1842, Moore was elected the eighth president of the college, resigning under unremarkable circumstances in 1849.Columbia University Libraries. [http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/uarchives/presidents/moore_nathaniel.html University Archives – Nathaniel Fish Moore]. After visiting the [Great Exhibition](/source/Great_Exhibition) in London in 1851, he became interested in photography,{{Cite web |title=Moore Nathaniel Fish |url=https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/moore-nathaniel-fish/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Mineralogical Record |language=en-US}} and was one of the first amateur photographers in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions {{!}} Nathaniel Fish Moore Photographs |url=https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/moore |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=exhibitions.library.columbia.edu}} He was reportedly so interested in his new hobby “that he frequently came to dinner wearing cotton gloves, because his hands were so stained with photographic chemicals.”{{Cite web |title=Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions {{!}} Nathaniel Fish Moore Photographs |url=https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/moore/nfmoore |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=exhibitions.library.columbia.edu}} ==Selected publications== *{{cite book|title=Ancient mineralogy; or, An inquiry respecting mineral substances mentioned by the ancients: with occasional remarks on the uses to which they were applied|year=1834|publisher=G. & C. Carvill & co.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008631170}}; {{cite book|title=2nd edition|year=1859|publisher=Harper & brothers|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155475}} *{{cite book|title=Lectures on the Greek language and literature|year=1835|publisher=Windt and Conrad|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001221762}} *{{cite book|title=A historical sketch of Columbia University, in the city of New-York|year=1846|publisher=Printed for Columbia College|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001451729}} *{{cite book|author=Moore, Nathaniel Fish|editor=Pargellis, Stanley|editor2=Butler, Ruth Lapham|title=Diary; a trip from New York to the falls of St. Anthony in 1845|year=1946}} ==Notes== {{Reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{succession box|title=[President of Columbia College](/source/Columbia_University)|before=[William Alexander Duer](/source/William_Alexander_Duer)|after=[Charles King](/source/Charles_King_(Columbia_University_president))|years=1842–1849}} {{s-end}} {{Columbia University presidents}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Nathaniel Fish}} Category:Columbia College, Columbia University alumni Category:Presidents of Columbia University Category:Columbia University faculty Category:Columbia University librarians Category:1782 births Category:1872 deaths Category:American librarians Category:American photographers {{US-academic-administrator-1780s-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nathaniel Fish Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Fish_Moore) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Fish_Moore?action=history)). 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