The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baldwin, James Mark

BALDWIN, James Mark, psychologist, was born in Columbia. S. C., Jan. 12, 1861, son of the Hon. Cyrus Hull, and Lydia Eunice (Ford) Baldwin. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1884; studied at the universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Tübingen; was an instructor in French and German at his alma mater, 1886-'87; professor of philosophy in Lake Forest university, 1887-89; professor of philosophy in Toronto university, Canada, 1889-'93; and professor of psychology at the College of New Jersey from 1893, which gave him the honorary degree of Ph. D. in 1889. He received the degree Sc. D. from Oxford, England, in 1900. He was a member of many scientific societies; a founder and editor of the Psychological Review; editor of the Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology and author of psychological text books.