Henry Martyn Baird

For other people of the same name, see Harry Baird (disambiguation).

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Henry Martyn Baird

Henry Martyn Baird (January 17, 1832 – November 1906) was an American historian and educationalist. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots.

Life

He was a son of Robert Baird (1798–1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked both in the United States and in Europe for the cause of temperance, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 17, 1832.

He spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and Geneva, and in 1850 graduated at New York University. He then lived for two years in Italy and Greece, was a student in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1853 to 1855, and in 1856 graduated at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a tutor for four years in the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and from 1859 until his death was professor of Greek language and literature in New York University.

Works

His work on the Huguenots appeared in three parts, entitled respectively History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France (2 vols, 1879), The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre (2 vols, 1886), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (2 vols, 1895), is described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as being "characterized by painstaking thoroughness, by a judicial temper, and by scholarship of a high order".

He also published Modern Greece, A Narrative of a Residence and Travels in that Country (1856); a biography of his father, The Life of the Rev. Robert Baird, D.D. (1866); and Theodore Beza, the Counsellor of the French Reformation (1899). He died in New York city in November 1906.

References

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• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 8, p. 171. New York: James T. White, 1898 (at Google Books).

External links

• Works by Henry Martyn Baird at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Henry Martyn Baird at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)