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

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Semitic scholar, was born in

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. He was the son of Samuel Gilman Brown (1813–1885), president of

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from 1867 to 1881, and the grandson of Francis Brown, whose removal from the presidency of

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and later restoration were incidental to the famous

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. The younger Francis graduated from

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, Andover in 1866, from Dartmouth in 1870 and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1877, and then studied in

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. In 1879 he became instructor in biblical

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

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and the cognate Languages. Brown's published works won him an honorary

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from the

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(1901), and a

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from the

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, as well as honorary doctorates from Dartmouth and

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. The works are, with the exception of ''The Christian Point of View'' (1902; with Profs. A. C. McGiffert 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' ''Lexicon'', undertaken with S. R. Driver and C. A. Briggs —

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, ''A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament'' (1891–1905). He also contributed to the ''

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