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About Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America. He was a major proponent of both Anglicanism and the philosophies of William Wollaston and George Berkeley in the colonies, founded and served as the first president of the Anglican King's College, which was renamed Columbia University following the American Revolutionary War, and was a key figure of the American Enlightenment.
Everything about Samuel Johnson →- Occupation
- philosopher, pastor, grammarian, Hebraist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 14, 1696, 1696
- Died
- January 6, 1772, 1772