Albert Baldwin Dod

Albert Baldwin Dod was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor of mathematics, born in Mendham, New Jersey, on 24 March 1805 and died on 20 November 1845. After graduating from Princeton in 1822 and a religious awakening there, he joined the circle known as the Princeton Theologians and wrote often for the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, edited by Charles Hodge. His article of January 1839 attacking Transcendentalism drew wide notice and was later republished by Andrews Norton. For much of his life he taught mathematics at the college while taking part in theological discussion and preaching at the Seminary in Princeton; his doctorates of divinity were conferred by the University of North Carolina and New York University. In 1869 his son Samuel Bayard Dod endowed a professorship of mathematics at Princeton in his memory, and Dod Hall is named for him. The 1840 census also records him as owning one enslaved woman.