David Tappan

For the American Presbyterian minister, see David Stanton Tappan.

David Tappan (1752–1803) was an American theologian. He occupied the Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School until his death in 1803.^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1796.^[2] He graduated from Harvard University in 1771.

Publications

Tappen's publications include;^[3]

• A Discourse Delivered in the Chapel of Harvard College, June 19, 1798, Occasioned by the Approaching Departure of the Senior Class From the University (Boston: Printed by Manning and Loring, 1798)
• Discourses on religion, morals, philosophy and metaphysics (New York, 1858)
• Lectures on Jewish antiquities (Cambridge [etc.]: W. Hilliard and E. Lincoln, 1807., 1807)

See also

• Arthur Tappan
• Benjamin Tappan
• Lewis Tappan