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member of the Seminary, he studied theology, and became in 1823 

 one of the teachers of the institution. He translated at that time 

 "Wahl's Clavis Novi Testamenti, and, in connection with Professor 

 Stuart, Winer's Grammar of the Language of the New Testament. 



Full of admiration of thorough German scholarship, he determined 

 to pursue his studies in Europe, whither he went in 182G, and devoted 

 himself, first at Paris, but chiefly at Halle and Berlin, to Biblical and 

 Oriental studies. At Halle he married the youngest daughter of Pro- 

 fessor Von Jacob, a lady known to the public by her nom de plume of 

 Talvi. After a residence of four years, which was of incalculable 

 influence upon his succeeding career, and after extensive travels in 

 Europe, he returned in 1830 to this country, and was immediately 

 made Assistant Professor and Librarian at the Theological Seminary 

 at Andover. While yet in Germany, he had translated the large 

 Greek Grammar of Buttmann, which was published immediately after 

 his return. He was one of the founders of the Biblical Repository, 

 and for several years a principal contributor to its pages. In 1833 

 the state of his health induced him to resign his office at Andover, and 

 remove to Boston. Here he was particularly occupied with the 

 preparation of a new Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testa- 

 ment, and a translation of Gesenius's Hebrew-Latin Lexicon. Both 

 were published in 1836. In the following year he accepted the pro- 

 fessorship of Biblical Literature in the newly-established Theological 

 Seminary in the city of New York, on condition of being permitted to 

 visit Europe once more. Revisiting Germany, he now, according to 

 a plan cherished and matured for fifteen years, with the late Dr. Eli 

 Smith, the well-known missionary at Beirut, made a journey to Egypt 

 and Palestine. Returning from his travels in the autumn of 1838, he 

 took up his residence in Berlin, where he remained until August, 1840, 

 to elaborate the results of his researches in his celebrated work, entitled 

 " Biblical Researches in Palestine and Adjacent Countries," which ap- 

 peared simultaneously in Germany and England. Of this work, Karl 

 Ritter said : " It will occupy one of the most impox'tant places for the 

 study of geographico-antiquarian sources of the Scriptures : it will, on 

 account of the many new discoveries and investigations it records, be 

 of enduring value for our knowledge of the Orient, and will furnish 

 the data for an entire reconstruction of the cartography of Palestine, 

 hitherto so imperfect." 



Returning now to America, he commenced his official labors in the 



