List of Professorships at The University of Dublin

List Of Professorships At The University Of Dublin

This is a list of professorships, other notable positions, and public lectures at the University of Dublin.

The Chairs in French (1776), German (1776), Irish (1840), English Literature (1867) and the precursor (1776) of the current Chair of Spanish (1926) are the oldest in the world in their respective subjects, as some others may be, or thereabouts - the Chair of Civil Engineering (1842) is the third oldest engineering professorship in the world (very soon after Paris and London).

Only professorships more than 50 years old are listed, as are some other notable historical positions (e.g. Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics (1668), now mostly an honorary, usually one-year, title for a distinguished visiting mathematician). Some old Chairs transferred to other institutions (e.g. the four King's Professors of Medicine to The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, which also previously appointed the Professors) or were discontinued with changing circumstances, especially those beyond the ordinary (e.g. Chair of English Feudal Law).

• Regius Chair of Physic (1637).
• Regius Professor of Laws (1668).
• Donegall Lecturer in Mathematics (1668).
• University Chair of Chemistry (1711).
• University Professor of Botany (1711).
• University Anatomist (1716).
• Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1724).
• Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Hebrew (1724).
• Regius Professor of Greek (1761).
• Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762).
• Erasmus Smith’s Chair of Mathematics (1762).
• Chair of Music (1764).
• Professor of French (1776).
• Professor of German (1776).
• Andrews Professor of Astronomy (1783) (honorary).
• University Chair of Anatomy and Chirurgery (1800).
• Whately Chair of Political Economy (1832).
• Chair of Moral Philosophy (1837).
• Chair of Irish (1840).
• Chair of Civil Engineering (1842).
• Chair of Geology and Mineralogy (1843).
• University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847).
• Professor of Surgery (1848).
• Regius Chair of Surgery (1852).
• Professor of English Literature (1867).
• Chair of Latin (1870).
• Louis Claude Purser Chair of Ancient History (1871).
• Chair of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy (1871).
• Public Orator (1879).
• Professor of Pastoral Theology (1888).
• Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology (1888) (The former title of this chair was Reid Professor of Penal Legislation, Constitutional and Criminal Law, and the Law of Evidence (1888) which was amended by the High Court on 3 March 1975. Appointments to this chair are made on the lecturer scale)
• Lecturer in Medical Jurisprudence (1888):
• Professor of Pathology (1895).
• Chair of Education (1905).
• Lecky Chair of History (1913) (a Medieval History Chair (although Lecky himself was a modern historian) and previously styled the 'Lecky Chair of Modern History (1913)'.
• Professor of Microbiology (1919) (formerly 'Prof. of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine').
• Chair of General Chemistry (1922).
• Chair of Human Anatomy and Embryology (1922).
• Professor of Physiology (1922).
• Chair of Spanish (1926) (the precursor was a 'Prof. of Modern Languages' covering both Italian and Spanish' created in 1776).
• Professor of Physical Chemistry (1935).
• Professor of Medicine (1955).

Discontinued / evolved into or merged with other positions / No longer separately listed in College Calendar:

• Regius Professor of Divinity (1607,? 1600)
• Professor of Theological Controversies (1607?, or earlier). Considered then the most important professorship in the University of Dublin

The next four are the ' King's Professors of Medicine ' (transferred to The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland)

• King's Professor of Practice of Medicine (1717)
• King's Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy (1749)
• King's Professor of Institutes of Medicine (1786)
• King's Professor of Midwifery (1827)
• Archbishop King's Professor of Divinity (1718)
• Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Oratory and History (1724) (merged with Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History (1762), see above)
• Professor of Biblical Greek (1838)
• Professor of English Feudal Law
• Lecturer on the Bible (1898)
• Wallace Divinity Lecturer (1901)
• Lecturer in the Practice of Electrical Engineering (1902)
• Lecturer in Anaesthetics (1910)
• Lecturer in Dental Surgery and Therapeutics (1910)
• Lecturer in Dental Prosthetics (1919)
• Lecturer in Roman Law (1920)
• Professor of Plant Biology (1922)
• Professor of Laws (1934)
• Louis Claude Purser Lecturer in Classical Archaeology (1934)
• Lecturer in Dental Anatomy and Physiology (1937)
• CATHECHIST
• Catechists (Presbyterian Church)
  • ' Professorships without any year of foundation against them in calendar of 1961-62 '
• Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (Robert Henry Minks appointed in 1952)
• Professor of Social Medicine (William John Edward Jessop appointed in 1952)
• Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology (John Brown Fleming appointed in 1953)
• Professor of Clinical Surgery (Robert Francis Jack Henry appointed in 1960)
• Professor of Clinical Medicine (Peter Barry Bronte Gatenby appointed in 1960)

• Professor in Pre-Clinical Veterinary Sciences (Veterinary Sciences transferred to UCD)
• Professor in Clinical Veterinary Sciences (Veterinary Sciences transferred to UCD)
• Professor in Clinical Veterinary Practices (Veterinary Sciences transferred to UCD)

Chairs that existed for brief periods, or especially for one holder only

• Professor of Geophysics (1934 for John Hewitt Jellett Poole only)
• Professor of Applied Economics (1939 for Joseph Johnson only)
• Professor of Experimental Medicine (1943 for Robert Allen Quain O'Meara only)
• Berkeley Professor of Metaphysics (1953 for Arthur Aston Luce only)
• Professor of Industrial Economics (William James Louden Ryan appointed in 1961)