GOODELL, WILLIAM: Congregationalist missionary; b. at Templeton, Mass., Feb. 14, 1792; d. in Philadelphia Feb. 18, 1867. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817, from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1820, and was sent by the American Board as a missionary to Beirut in 1822. On account of the Greek revolution he was forced to retire to Malta in 1828, where he. continued his missionary work till 1831. In June 1831 he opened a new mission to the Armenians in Constantinople, where he labored with conspicuous r.u3cees till 1865, returning then to the United States. The crowning work of his life was his Armeno-Turkish translation of the Bible, the final revision of which appeared in 1863.
Bibliography: E. D. G. Prime, Forty Years in the Turkish Empire; or, Memoirs of Rev. William Goodell, New York, 1883 (by his son-in-law).
GOODWIN, CHARLES WYCLIFFE: English jurist and Egyptologist; b. at King's Lynn (26 m. n.e. of Ely), Norfolk, 1817; d. at Shanghai, China, Jan. 17, 1878. He studied at St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge (B.A., 1838; M.A., 1842), and was admitted to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1848. He was the only lay contributor to Essays and Reviews (q.v.). In 1865 he was appointed assistant judge of the supreme court for China and
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Japan. In 1873 he was transferred to Yokohama as acting judge of the supreme court, a position which he retained when he returned to Shanghai in 1876. His works include: The Anglo-Saxon Version of the Life of St. Guthlac . . . with a Translation and Notes (London, 1848); The Anglo-Saxon Legends of St. Andrew and St. Veronica . . . with an English Translation (Cambridge, 1851); Hieratic Papyri (in Cambridge Essays, London, 1858); On the Mosaic Cosmogony (in Essays and Ravietas, 1860); The Story of Sanelui, an Egyptian Tale of Four Thousand Yearn ago, Translated from the Hieratic Text (1866), which, with other translations by Goodwin, was included in the first series of Records of the Past (12 vols., 1873-81); also a number of contributions to the second eerier of Chabas' M-9angea 4gyptologiquea (Chalon-sur-'3afte, 1864), and to Lepsius and Brugech's Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache.
Bibliography: DNB, mi. 14?r143.
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