 | Board of Visitors minutes October 18, 1963 |  |
THE ROBLEY DUNGLISON PROFESSORSHIP OF BIOCHEMISTRY
The President proposed and the Board adopted the following resolution
RESOLVED by the Board of Visitors of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia that
there is hereby established a Chair in the School of Medicine to be known as the Robley Dunglison
Professorship of Biochemistry
Robley Dunglison (1798-1869), one of the greatest physicians and teachers of the 19th century,
was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as the University of Virginia's first Professor of Medicine, a
post which he held from 1825 to 1833. He was the first Secretary of the Faculty and its second
Chairman. A native of Keswick, England, and a graduate of English and German universities, he was
a prolific editor and author of medical works published in Europe and America. Subsequent to 1833
he taught at the University of Maryland, and from 1836 until his death was Professor of Medicine
at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, where he was also Dean of the Faculty. Among his
many honors was the vice presidency of the American Philosophical Society. He was personal
physician to President Jefferson, President Madison, and President Monroe, and attended the three
statesmen in their terminal illnesses.
| Board of Visitors minutes October 18, 1963 | |