BAIRD, HENRY MARTYN (18321906)

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BAIRD, HENRY MARTYN (18321906) , American historian and educationalist, a son of Robert Baird (17981863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked earnestly both in the United States and in Europe for the cause. of temperance, was born in Philadelphia,

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, on the 17th of January 1832. He spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and Geneva, and in ,85o graduated at New

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University. He then lived for two years in Italy and Greece, was a student in the Union Theological Seminary in New

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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

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(now Princeton University), and from 1859 until his death was professor of Greek language and literature in New York University. He is best known, however,, as a historian of the Huguenots. His

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, 'which appeared in three parts, entitled respectively History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France (2 vols., 1879), The Huguenots and

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of Navarre (2 vols., 1886), and The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (2 vols., 1895), is 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 on the Irth of November 1906.
His brother; CHARLES WASHINGTON BAIRD (1828-1887), a graduate of New York University (1848) and of the Union Theological Seminary (1852), and the minister in turn of a Dutch Reformed church at Brooklyn, New York, and of a Presbyterian church at Rye, New York, also was deeply'interested in the history of the Huguenots, and published a scholarly.

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entitled The History of the Huguenot Emigration to America (2vols., 1885), left unfinished at his death.

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