Francis Greenwood Peabody | |
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Born |
Boston,
Massachusetts, U.S. | December 4, 1847
Died | December 28, 1936
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 89)
Spouse |
Cora Weld
(
m. 1872; died 1914) |
Parents |
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Ecclesiastical career | |
Religion | Christianity ( Unitarian) |
Ordained | 1874 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Influences | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theology |
Sub-discipline | Christian ethics [7] |
School or tradition | Social Gospel [6] |
Institutions | Harvard University |
Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936) was an American Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University. [8]
Peabody was born on December 4, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts. [9] He graduated from Harvard University in 1869. When a junior, "he was first baseman in the first Harvard nine to play against Yale." He then went to the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1872 with the degrees of AM and STB. [2]
Peabody died in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on December 28, 1936. [10]