Woolsey, Theodore Dwight (1801–1889)

US educationalist. President of Yale University 1846–71, he oversaw its expansion into a modern university with specialized departments and graduate degrees. He was the author of Political Science 1878 and Communism and Socialism 1880.

Born in New York, USA, and educated at Yale University, Woolsey studied classics in Europe and was appointed to the Yale faculty as a professor of Greek 1831. After his retirement as president, Woolsey remained a member of the Yale Corporation 1871–85.