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Example sentences for "became professor"

  • In 1858 he became professor of geology in the university of his native city, and he was afterwards placed in charge of the geological survey of the country, then established mainly through his influence.

  • The following year, however, he transferred his services to the university of Innsbruck, where he became professor in 1884.

  • Professor of philosophy at the Universities of Minnesota, Michigan, and Chicago, where he was also director of the School of Education, he became professor of philosophy at Columbia University in 1904.

  • In 1874 he became professor of philosophy, and translated several works of Herbert Spencer and of Schopenhauer into French.

  • After a brilliant career at the university of Leiden, he studied theology at Saumur, where while still very young he became professor of philosophy.

  • In 1796 he became professor at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin, a post which he held for twelve years.

  • He became professor of theology at Naples in 1740, and, entering the religious body of the Celestines, rose to be general of the order.

  • In 1738 he became professor of national history also.

  • When only twenty-four he became Professor of Oriental Languages in the College or Divinity School of the Free Church at Aberdeen, and two years later was chosen one of the revisers of the Old Testament, a striking honour for so young a man.

  • After being employed in the Hofmineralien Cabinet at Vienna, he became professor of mineralogy in the university of Zurich.

  • Here success attended his efforts and in due time he became professor.

  • He became professor of obstetrics and infants’ diseases at his alma mater, holding that chair for twenty-six years and contributing in large measure to the success of the medical department.

  • In the latter year he was made professor of clinical surgery, which position he held for fifteen years, when he became professor of surgery, occupying that chair until 1907.

  • In 1851 he became professor of botany in the university of Zurich, and he directed his attention to the Tertiary plants and insects of Switzerland.

  • He became professor of Arabic in the College de France in 1715.

  • After teaching in Heidelberg and Berlin, he became professor of philosophy at Jena (1846), a post which he held till his death.

  • In 1447 he became professor of Greek in the newly founded university of Ferrara, to which students in great numbers from all parts of Italy were soon attracted by his fame as a teacher.

  • In 1871 he became professor of palaeography at the Ecole des Chartes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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