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Born October 9, 1201 • France
Died August 15, 1274 (aged 72) • Paris • France
Founder Maison de Sorbonne
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon
French archbishop and writer
Jacques Barzun
American teacher, historian, and author
Abbie Park Ferguson
American educator
Mary Lyon, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Mary Lyon
American educator
I. Michael Heyman
American scholar
Laura Drake Gill.
Laura Drake Gill
American educator
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills.
Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills
American missionary and educator
Towle, Katherine Amelia
Katherine Amelia Towle
American educator and military officer
Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Hesburgh
American priest and educator
Ibn al-Jawzī
Muslim educator
Petro Mohyla
Orthodox theologian
Abby Lillian Marlatt
American educator
Maria Louise Sanford
Maria Louise Sanford
American educator
Mark Hopkins
American educator and theologian
Charles Townsend Copeland
American educator
Dwight, Timothy
Timothy Dwight
American theologian and poet
Follen, Karl
Karl Follen
American educator
S.S. Schmucker
American theologian
Clark, William Smith
William Smith Clark
American educator
Henry Sloane Coffin, detail from an oil painting by an unknown artist
Henry Sloane Coffin
American clergyman