Charles Reynolds Brown was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, W. Va. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University. He lectured at various times at Leland Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, Cal., from 1896 to 1911. In the latter year he became dean of the Yale Divinity School. He wrote:Two Parables (1898)
The Main Points (1899)
The Social Message of the Modern Pulpit (1906)
The Strange Ways of God, a Study of the Book of Job (1908)
The Gospel of Good Health (1908)
Faith and Health (1910)
The Cap and Gown (1910)
The Modern Man's Religion (1911)
The Quest of Life and Other Addresses (1913)
Living Again
Lincoln The Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century (1922)
Ten Short Stories from the Bible (1925)
My Own Yesterdays
Being Made Over (1939)
Charles Rollin was a French historian and educator, whose popularity in his time combined with becoming forgotten by later generations makes him an epithet, applied to historians such as Jean Charles Leonard de Sismondi.
Charles S. Olcott was an American non-fiction writer. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, he graduated from DePauw University and worked in publishing as the general manager of the private library of Houghton Mifflin. He was the author of four books, including a two-volume biography of President William McKinley.
Charles Sanders Peirce was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". According to philosopher Paul Weiss, Peirce was "the most original and versatile of America's philosophers and America's greatest logician". Bertrand Russell wrote "he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century and certainly the greatest American thinker ever".
Charles Sangster was a Canadian poet. He was the first poet to write poetry which was substantially about Canadian subjects. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography calls him "the best of the pre-confederation poets."
Charles Sears Baldwin was an American scholar and professor of rhetoric at Yale University. Born in New York City in 1867, Baldwin entered Columbia College at seventeen and received his A.B. in 1888. He was one of the earliest students to be granted the Ph.D. degree in English at Columbia. Besides teaching at Yale (1895–1911), Baldwin also worked at Barnard College and Columbia University. He was married twice, first in 1894 to Agnes Irwin, and then to Gratia Eaton Whited in 1902. Most of his life an Episcopalian, he converted to Catholicism the year before his death. Baldwin died in New York City in 1935.
Charles Gabriel Rodolphe Secrétan, né le 19 janvier 1815 à Lausanne où il meurt le 21 janvier 1895, est un juriste, enseignant, théologien protestant, philosophe suisse, originaire du canton de Vaud.
Charles Seignobos was a French scholar of historiography and an historian who specialized in the history of the French Third Republic, and was a member of the Human Rights League.
Charles Seymour was an American academic, historian and the 15th President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951. As an academic administrator, he was instrumental in establishing Yale's residential college system. His writing focused on the diplomatic history of World War I.
