Joseph Gibson Hoyt, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJoseph Gibson Hoyt
American academic
Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1815
Date of Death: 26-Nov-1862
Profession: academic
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Joseph Gibson Hoyt
- Joseph Gibson Hoyt (January 19, 1815 – November 26, 1862) was the first chancellor and a professor of Greek at Washington University in St.
- Louis (then named Washington Institute in St.
- Louis) from 1858 to 1862.
- Born in Dunbarton, New Hampshire in 1815, Hoyt received his undergraduate education at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones.
- After Hoyt's graduation from Yale in 1840, he served as an instructor in mathematics and natural philosophy at Phillips Exeter Academy from 1840 to 1858, before taking up his post at Washington University.
- In 1862, Hoyt died in St.
- Louis, Missouri at the age of 47.
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