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BELA BATES EDWARDS (18o2-1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELA See also:BATES See also:EDWARDS (18o2-1852)  , See also:American See also:man of letters, was See also:born at See also:Southampton, See also:Massachusetts, on the 4th of See also:July 1802 . He graduated at See also:Amherst See also:College in 1824, was a See also:tutor there in 1827–1828, graduated at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary in 1830, and was licensed to preach . From 1828 to 1833 he was assistant secretary of the American See also:Education Society (organized in See also:Boston in 1815 to assist students for the See also:ministry), and from 1828 to 1842 was editor of the society's See also:organ, which after 1831 was called the American Quarterly See also:Register . He also founded (in 1833) and edited the American Quarterly Observer; in 1836–1841 edited the Biblical Repository (after 1837 called the American Biblical Repository) with which the Observer was merged in 1835; and was editor-in-See also:chief of the Bibliotheca Sacra from 1844 to 1851 . In 1837 he became See also:professor of See also:Hebrew at Andover, and from 1848 until his See also:death was See also:associate professor of sacred literature there . He died at See also:Athens . See also:Georgia, on the zoth of See also:April 1852 . Among his numerous publications were A Missionary Gazetteer (1832), A See also:Biography of Self-Taught Men (1832), a once widely known Eclectic Reader (1835), a See also:translation, with See also:Samuel See also:Harvey See also:Taylor (1807–1871), of Kuhner's Schulgrammatik der Griechischen Sprache and Classical Studies (1844), essays in See also:ancient literature and See also:art written in collaboration with Barnas Sears and C . C . See also:Felton . See also:Edwards' Addresses and Sermons, with a memoir by Rev . Edwards A .

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Park, were published in two volumes at Boston in 1853 .

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