A scholar who taught Oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological Seminary in New York from  1823 to 1850, he was instrumental in getting Lorenzo Da Ponte a professorship in Italian literature at Columbia  University.
A scholar who taught Oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological Seminary in New York from  1823 to 1850, he was instrumental in getting Lorenzo Da Ponte a professorship in Italian literature at Columbia  University. He is best remembered, however, for an 1823 poem first published anonymously in the Troy, New  York Sentinel. FTP identify this author of A Visit from Saint Nicholas.
A scholar who taught Oriental and Greek literature at the General Theological Seminary in New York from  1823 to 1850, he was instrumental in getting Lorenzo Da Ponte a professorship in Italian literature at Columbia  University.
Clement Clarke Moore