Christopher Robert

Christopher Rhinelander Robert, the founder of Robert College, which still bears his name

Christopher Rhinelander Robert (March 23, 1802 – October 28, 1878) was an American philanthropist from New York City, who founded Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1863, arguably the oldest American school outside the United States.[1][2]

  1. ^ Malone, Dumas, ed. (1935). "Robert, Rhineland Christopher". Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. 16 (Robert-Seward). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 1–2. Retrieved July 14, 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Where East Is West". Time. September 9, 1946. Archived from the original on September 2, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2008.