Brown, Francis

BROWN, FRANCIS: Presbyterian; b. at Hanover, N. H., Dec. 26, 1849. He was educated at Dartmouth College (B.A., 1870), Union Theological Seminary (1877), and the University of Berlin (1877–79). He was assistant master in Ayers' Latin School, Pittsburg, Pa., in 1870–72, and tutor in Greek in Dartmouth College in 1872–74. He became instructor in Biblical philology in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1879; associate professor of the same, 1881; professor of Hebrew and the cognate languages, 1890; and also president, 1908. He was president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis in 1895–96 (member since 1881); president of the Society of Historical Theology (Oxford) in 1899–1900 (member since 1891; member of the American Oriental Society since 1881). He was Ely lecturer in Union Theological Seminary in 1907; head of the American School for Oriental Study and Research in Palestine, 1907–08. He has written: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (New York, 1384; in collaboration with R. D. Hitchcock); Assyriology, its Use and Abuse in Old Testament Study (1885); A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (12 parts, Oxford, 1891–1906; in collaboration with S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs); and The Christian Point of View (New York, 1902; in collaboration with A. C. McGiffert and G. W. Knox).