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STUART, MOSES (1780-1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1048 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STUART, See also:MOSES (1780-1852) , See also:American biblical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Wilton, See also:Connecticut, on the 26th of See also:March 1780. He was reared on a See also:farm; graduated with highest honours at Yale in 1799; in 1802 was admitted to the Connecticut See also:bar, and was appointed a See also:tutor at Yale, where he remained for two years; and in 18o6 became pastor of the Centre (Congregational) See also:Church of New Haven. In x8ro he was appointedprofessor of sacred literature in the See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary, organized in 18o8. Here he succeeded Eliphalet See also:Pearson (1752-1826), the first See also:preceptor of the See also:Phillips (Andover) See also:Academy and in 1786-1806 See also:professor of See also:Hebrew and See also:Oriental See also:languages at Harvard. Stuart himself then knew hardly more than the elements of Hebrew and not very much more See also:Greek than Hebrew; in 1810-1812 he prepared for the use of his students a Hebrew See also:grammar which they copied See also:day by day from his See also:manuscript; in 1813 he printed his Grammar, which appeared in an enlarged See also:form, " with a copious syntax and praxis," in 1821, and was republished in See also:England by Dr See also:Pusey in 1831. He gradually made the acquaintance of See also:German See also:works in See also:hermeneutics, first Schleusner, Seiler and Gesenius, and taught himself German, arousing much suspicion and distrust among his colleagues by his unusual studies. But his recognition soon came, partly as a result of his See also:Letter to Dr Charming on the Subject of Religious See also:Liberty (1830), but more largely through the growing favour shown to German See also:philology and See also:critical methods. In 1848 he resigned his See also:chair at Andover. He died in Andover on the 4th of See also:January 1852. He has been called the "See also:father of exegetical studies in See also:America." He contributed largely by his teaching to the renewal of See also:foreign missionary zeal—of his 1500 students more than Too became foreign missionaries, among them such skilled translators as Adoniram See also:Judson, See also:Elias Riggs and See also:William G. Schauffler. Among his more important publications were: See also:Winer's Greek Grammar of the New Testament (1825), with See also:Edward See also:Robinson; Commentary on the See also:Epistle to the See also:Hebrews (1827—1828); Commentary on the Epistle to the See also:Romans (1832) ; Commentary on the See also:Apocalypse (1845); Miscellanies (1846); Gesenius's Hebrew Grammar (1846) a version which involved Stuart in a See also:long controversy with T.

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Conant, the earlier, and possibly more scholarly, translator of Gesenius; Commentary on See also:Ecclesiastes (1851), and Commentary on the See also:Book of See also:Proverbs (1852). See the memorial sermons by See also:Edwards A. See also:Park (See also:Boston, 1852) and William See also:Adams (New See also:York, 1852).

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