All Things 150
“All Things 150” List
Ibrahim Kefruni
Instructor in Mathematics
Year of First Appointment: 1880
Sheikh Khattar Ed-Dahdah
Tutor of French
Year of First Appointment: 1880
Richard W. Brigstocke
Lecturer
Year of First Appointment: 1880
Henry Wortabet
Instructor of Latin
Year of First Appointment: 1872
John Wortabet
Professor of Physiology
Year of First Appointment: 1871
Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck
Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy
Year of First Appointment: 1871
In 1840 Cornelius Van Dyck was…
Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck
Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy
Year of First Appointment: 1871
In 1840 Cornelius Van Dyck was sent to Lebanon by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as a medical missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church. He studied Arabic in Beirut under Butrus al-Bustani and Nasif al-Yaziji, both of whom later became famous Arab writer, and eventually became a professor of pathology and internal medicine at SPC.
Harvey Porter
Instructor in Mental Sciences and History
Year of First Appointment: 1871
Ibrahim Hourani
Instructor of Arabic
Year of First Appointment: 1871
Elias Habbaleen
Instructor of French
Year of First Appointment: 1871
Georgios Fayyad
Instructor in Accounting
Year of First Appointment: 1871