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Benjamin Rush
American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 December 1745, 4 January 1746
- Died
- 19 April 1813
- Place of birth
- Byberry
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Benjamin
- Family name
- Rush
- Spouse
- Julia Stockton Rush
- Child
- Richard Rush
- Sibling
- Jacob Rush
- Occupation
- chemist, writer, psychiatrist, physician, university teacher, politician
- Citizenship
- United States, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- cause of death
- typhus
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, The New Student's Reference Work, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The American Cyclopædia, American Medical Biographies, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- doctoral advisor
- John Redman, Joseph Black, William Cullen
- doctoral student
- James Woodhouse
- employer
- University of Pennsylvania
- honorific prefix
- Doctor
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Philosophical Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Pennsylvania Abolition Society, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Founding Fathers of the United States
- name in native language
- Benjamin Rush
- nickname
- Father of American Psychiatry
- number of children
- 13
- place of burial
- Christ Church Burial Ground
- social classification
- slave owner
- student of
- Samuel Finley, Joseph Black, William Cullen
- topic's main category
- Category:Benjamin Rush
- writing language
- English
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