Brown, Charles Rufus

BROWN, CHARLES RUFUS: Baptist; b. at East Kingston, N. H., Feb. 22, 1849. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy (1863–65) and the United States Naval Academy (1865–69), and attained the rank of master. He resigned from the navy, however, and continued his studies at Newton Theological Institution (1874–75, 1877–1878), Harvard University (B.A., 1877), Union Theological Seminary (1878–79), and the universities of Berlin (1879–80) and Leipsic (1880–81). He was ordained to the Baptist ministry at Franklin, N. H., in 1881, and remained there as pastor until 1883. He was appointed associate professor of Biblical interpretation, Old Testament, in the Newton Theological Institution in 1883, and since 1886 has been professor of Hebrew and cognate languages there. He was also librarian of the institution in 1884–85, 1889–97, and 1900–06, secretary of the faculty in 1887–92, and registrar in 1892–95. He has been a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis since 1883, and was formerly a member of the American Oriental Society (1886), the Archeological Institute of America (1899), and the department of archeology in the University of Pennsylvania (1902). He has written An Aramaic Method (2 parts, Chicago, 1884–86); in 1893–94 edited the course of Sunday-school lessons in the Bible Study Minor Graded Lesson System, and made a critical translation of Jeremiah (Philadelphia, 1907).