Henry Burt Wright

Henry Burt Wright (1877–1923) was an American professor from Yale University whose writings influenced, among others, Frank Buchman, and subsequently the work he developed under the name of Oxford Group, later Moral Rearmament.

Biography Henry Burt Wright was born on January 29, 1877, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the second son of Henry Parks Wright, who was the first dean of Yale University and of Martha Burt.

His academic career included a BA in 1898 and a PhD in 1903, both from Yale. He became a tutor of Greek and Latin in Yale from 1903 to 1906, instructor from 1906 to 1907, assistant professor of Roman history and Latin literature from 1908 to 1911, assistant professor of history from 1911 to 1914 and, from 1914 on, Stephen M. Clement Professor of Christian Methods at Yale Divinity School. While based at Hartford, teaching and gathering his team, Buchman used to travel four hours each way, once a week, to attend Wright's lectures at Yale. Many of the ideas later promoted by Buchman appear to be borrowed from Wright.

Yale Dininity School chair of systematic theology is named after him. The current holder of Yale University's Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology chair is Croatian Protestant theologian Miroslav Volf.

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