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FRANCIS BROWN (1849- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 658 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS See also:BROWN (1849- )  , See also:American Semitic See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Hanover, New See also:Hampshire, on the 26th of See also:December 1849, the son of See also:Samuel See also:Gilman See also:Brown (1813-1885), See also:president of See also:Hamilton See also:College from 1867 to ,881, and the See also:grandson of See also:Francis Brown (1784-1820), whose removal from the See also:presidency of See also:Dartmouth College and later restoration were incidental to the famous " Dartmouth College See also:case." The younger Francis graduated from Dartmouth in 1870 and from the See also:Union Theo-logical See also:Seminary in 1877, and then studied in See also:Berlin . In 1879 he became instructor in biblical See also:philology at the Union Theo-logical Seminary, in 1881 an See also:associate See also:professor of the same subject, and in 1890 professor of See also:Hebrew and cognate See also:languages.' Dr Brown's published See also:works have won him honorary degrees from the See also:universities of See also:Glasgow and See also:Oxford, as well as from Dartmouth and Yale; they are, with the exception of The See also:Christian Point of View (1902; with Profs . A . C . See also:McGiffert and G . W . See also:Knox), almost purely linguistic and lexical, and include Assyriology: its Use and Abuse in Old Testament Study (1885), and the important revision of Gesenius, undertaken with S . R . See also:Driver and C . A . See also:Briggs, A Hebrew and See also:English See also:Lexicon of the Old Testament (1891-1905) . ' In 1908 he succeeded See also:Charles See also:Cuthbert See also:Hall (1852-1908) as president of the seminary .

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