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BAIRD, HENRY MARTYN (1832—1906)

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BAIRD, See also:HENRY See also:MARTYN (1832—1906) , See also:American historian and educationalist, a son of See also:Robert Baird (1798—1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked earnestly both in the See also:United States and in See also:Europe for the cause. of See also:temperance, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 17th of See also:January 1832. He spent eight years of his See also:early youth with his See also:father in See also:Paris and See also:Geneva, and in ,85o graduated at New See also:York University. He then lived for two years in See also:Italy and See also:Greece, was a student in the See also:Union Theological See also:Seminary in New York See also:city from 1853 to 1855, and in 1856 graduated at the See also:Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a See also:tutor for four years in the See also:College of New See also:Jersey (now Princeton University), and from 1859 until his See also:death was See also:professor of See also:Greek See also:language and literature in New York University. He is best known, however,, as a historian of the See also:Huguenots. His See also:work, 'which appeared in three parts, entitled respectively See also:History of the Rise of the Huguenots of See also:France (2 vols., 1879), The Huguenots and Henry of See also:Navarre (2 vols., 1886), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes (2 vols., 1895), is characterized by painstaking thoroughness, by a judicial See also:temper, and by scholarship of a high See also:order. He also published See also:Modern Greece," A Narrative of a See also:Residence and Travels in that See also:Country (1856); a See also:biography of his father, The See also:Life of the Rev. Robert Baird, D.D. (1866); and See also:Theodore See also:Beza, the Counsellor of the See also:French See also:Reformation (1899). He died in New York city on the Irth of See also:November 1906. His See also:brother; See also:CHARLES See also:WASHINGTON BAIRD (1828-1887), a See also:graduate of New York University (1848) and of the Union Theological Seminary (1852), and the See also:minister in turn of a Dutch Reformed See also:church at See also:Brooklyn, New York, and of a Presbyterian church at See also:Rye, New York, also was deeply'interested in the history of the Huguenots, and published a scholarly. work entitled The History of the Huguenot See also:Emigration to See also:America (2vols., 1885), See also:left unfinished at his death.

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