The Rev. Francis Brown (December 26, 1849 – 1916), American

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 Semitic

Semitic

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 scholar, was born in Hanover, New Hampshire

Hanover, New Hampshire

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.

He was the son of Samuel Gilman Brown

Samuel Gilman Brown

Samuel Gilman Brown was an American educator. He was born in North Yarmouth, Maine, the son of President Francis Brown of Dartmouth College, graduated at Dartmouth in 1831 and at Andover Theological Seminary in 1837; was professor of oratory and belles-lettres in Dartmouth from 1840 to 1863, and...

 (1813–1885), president of Hamilton College from 1867 to 1881, and the grandson of Francis Brown

Francis Brown (1784-1820)

The Rev. Francis Brown served as the president of Dartmouth College. He graduated from the College in 1805 and from 1806–1809 held a tutorship there. He also served a pastor in a Congregational church in North Yarmouth, Maine...

, whose removal from the presidency of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

 and later restoration were incidental to the famous Dartmouth College case.

The younger Francis graduated from Dartmouth in 1870 and from the Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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 in 1877, and then studied in Berlin

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. In 1879 he became instructor in biblical philology

Philology

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 at the Union Theological Seminary, in 1881 an associate professor of the same subject, and in 1890 Davenport Professor of Hebrew

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 and the cognate Languages.

Dr. Brown's published works won him honorary degrees from the universities of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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 and Oxford

University of Oxford

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, as well as from Dartmouth and Yale

Yale University

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; they are, with the exception of The Christian Point of View (1902; with Profs. A.C. McGiffert

Arthur Cushman McGiffert

Arthur Cushman McGiffert , American theologian, was born in Sauquoit, New York, the son of a Presbyterian clergyman of Scots-Irish descent....

 and G.W. 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. Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver

Samuel Rolles Driver was an English divine and Hebrew scholar. He devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament. He was the father of Sir Godfrey Rolles Driver, also a distinguished Bible scholar.-Biography:Samuel Rolles Driver was born at Southampton...

 and C.A. Briggs

Charles Augustus Briggs

Charles Augustus Briggs , American Presbyterian scholar and theologian, was born in New York City, the son of Alanson Briggs and Sarah Mead Berrian...

 — Brown Driver Briggs

Brown Driver Briggs

The Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew Lexicon is a standard reference for Biblical Hebrew. It is organized by alphabetical order of three letter roots. It is based on the Hebrew-German lexicon of Wilhelm Gesenius, translated by Edward Robinson...

, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1891–1905).

He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Biblica

Encyclopaedia Biblica

Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religion History, the Archeology, Geography and Natural History of the Bible , edited by Thomas Kelly Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black, is a critical encyclopedia of the Bible. In Theology/Biblical studies, it is often...