George Park Fisher (August 10, 1827 – December 20, 1909) was an American theologian and historian who was noted as a teacher and a prolific writer.
George Park Fisher
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| Born | (1827-08-10)August 10, 1827
Wrentham, Massachusetts
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| Died | December 20, 1909(1909-12-20) (aged 82)
Litchfield, Connecticut
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| Burial place | Grove Street Cemetery |
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| Occupation(s) | Theologian, historian |
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He was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University in 1847, and then studied theology at Yale Divinity School and the Andover Theological Seminary. He graduated from the latter institution in 1851. In 1853 he visited Germany, where he continued his theological studies.[1]
Upon returning from Europe in 1854, he was appointed professor of divinity at Yale, and he was ordained as pastor of the College church.[1] In 1861, he resigned these positions to become a professor of ecclesiastical history. In 1901, he became emeritus professor. Fisher was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1879.[2] He was president of the American Historical Association in 1898.[3]
He was a frequent contributor to The New Englander, of which quarterly he was an editor beginning in 1866.[1]
Fisher died in Litchfield, Connecticut, on December 20, 1909, and was buried at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.[4][5]
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1919). "Fisher, George Park". Encyclopedia Americana. Vol. 11. p. 280.
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