벤저민 러시

소개

벤저민 러시(영어: Benjamin Rush, 1746년 1월 4일 ~ 1813년 4월 19일) 미국 독립선언서의 서명인 중의 한 명이다. '펜실베이니아의 히포크라테스'로 불렸다. '사혈(bleeder)의 왕자'로도 불렸다. 사회개혁가로써 노예제도를 반대하였고, 사형제도와 아동학대에 반대하는 휴머니스트였다. 영국과의 독립전쟁당시 미국군으로 참전하였다.

Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress. He later described his efforts in support of the American Revolution, saying: "He aimed well." He served as Surgeon General of the Middle Department of the Continental Army and became a professor of chemistry, medical theory, and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania.