Nathaniel Fish Moore

{{Short description|American university administrator}}

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| name = Nathaniel Fish Moore

| image = NathanielFishMoorePortrait.png

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| title = 8th President of Columbia University

| term_start = 1842

| term_end = 1849

| predecessor = William Alexander Duer

| successor = Charles King

| birth_date = {{birth date|1782|12|25}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1872|4|27|1782|12|25}}

| death_place = Hudson, New York

| alma_mater = Columbia University

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Nathaniel Fish Moore (December 25, 1782 – April 27, 1872){{Cite web|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/james-w-moore/rev-john-moore-of-newtown-long-island-and-some-of-his-descendants-roo/page-17-rev-john-moore-of-newtown-long-island-and-some-of-his-descendants-roo.shtml|title = Read the eBook Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and some of his descendants by James W. Moore online for free (Page 17 of 86)}} was the eighth president of Columbia College; he had earlier been a lawyer and served on the faculty. He was the nephew of the college's former president Benjamin Moore.

Moore earned his AB at Columbia in 1802, during which time his uncle Benjamin Moore served as president of the college.{{cn|date=July 2024}} He was promoted to MA in 1805.{{Cite web |title=Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions {{!}} Nathaniel Fish Moore Photographs |url=https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/moore |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=exhibitions.library.columbia.edu}}

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In 1817, Moore began his career at Columbia College as an adjunct professor and in 1820 was named a professor of Greek and Latin.{{Cite web |title=Moore Nathaniel Fish |url=https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/moore-nathaniel-fish/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Mineralogical Record |language=en-US}} In 1830 became titled the Jay Professor of the Greek Language and Literature.[https://archive.org/details/historicalsketch00coluuoft/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22jay+professor%22 An historical Sketch of Columbia College in the City of New York 1754-1876]. New York: Columbia College (1876), page 62, accessed 26 April 2021.

Moore resigned his professorship in 1835 to travel to Europe and the Holy Land, and was appointed as the first full-time Librarian of the College in 1838 upon his return.{{Cite web |title=Moore Nathaniel Fish |url=https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/moore-nathaniel-fish/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Mineralogical Record |language=en-US}}

Four years later, in 1842, Moore was elected the eighth president of the college, resigning under unremarkable circumstances in 1849.Columbia University Libraries. [http://library.columbia.edu/indiv/uarchives/presidents/moore_nathaniel.html University Archives – Nathaniel Fish Moore].

After visiting the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, he became interested in photography,{{Cite web |title=Moore Nathaniel Fish |url=https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/moore-nathaniel-fish/ |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=Mineralogical Record |language=en-US}} and was one of the first amateur photographers in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions {{!}} Nathaniel Fish Moore Photographs |url=https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/moore |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=exhibitions.library.columbia.edu}} He was reportedly so interested in his new hobby “that he frequently came to dinner wearing cotton gloves, because his hands were so stained with photographic chemicals.”{{Cite web |title=Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions {{!}} Nathaniel Fish Moore Photographs |url=https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/moore/nfmoore |access-date=2024-07-19 |website=exhibitions.library.columbia.edu}}