Biography of Archibald Alexander

Archibald Alexander

Archibald Alexander (1772 – October 22, 1851) was an ordained minister at he age of 19 and selected as president of Hampden-Sydney College at 24. Nine years later he was called to he Third Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and in 1812 when the Princeton Theological Seminary was established at Princeton, New Jersey in 1812 and Alexander was appointed its first professor, inaugurated on August 12, 1812. He served for 27 years as that institution's first principal from 1812 to 1840.

Among other works, he wrote Outlines of the Evidences of Christianity, Treatise on the Canon of Scripture (1826), History of the Patriarchs (1833) and History of Israelitish Nation (1852). His Moral Science was published posthumously.