Born: Au­gust 13, 1851, Al­zey, Hess­en-Darm­stadt, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: Ap­ril 24, 1933, New York Ci­ty.

Buried: Mount Plea­sant Cem­e­te­ry, Haw­thorne, New York.

Son of a rab­bi, Ad­ler em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1857, and grad­u­at­ed from Co­lum­bia Coll­ege in 1870. He found­ed the New York So­ci­e­ty for Ethic­al Cul­ture, the Eth­ic­al Cul­ture move­ment, and the New York Eth­ic­al Cul­ture schools. He was al­so a pro­fess­or of He­brew and Or­i­ent­al lit­er­a­ture at Cor­nell Un­i­ver­si­ty, Ith­a­ca, New York (1874-1876), pro­fess­or of So­cial and Po­lit­ic­al Eth­ics at Co­lum­bia Un­i­ver­si­ty (1902-1933), and gave the Hib­bert Lectures at Ox­ford Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1923. His works in­clude:

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