Francis Brown (December 26, 1849 - ), American Semitic scholar, was born in Hanover, New Hampshire. December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Semitic is an adjective referring to the peoples who have traditionally spoken Semitic languages or to things pertaining to them. ... Dartmouth Colleges Baker Library is a prominent feature at the center of Hanover Located on the Connecticut River in the state of New Hampshire, United States, Hanover has a population of 10,850. ...

He was the son of Samuel Gilman Brown (1813-1885), president of Hamilton College from 1867 to 1881, and the grandson of Francis Brown (1784-1820), whose removal from the presidency of Dartmouth College and later restoration were incidental to the famous Dartmouth College case. Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. ... For other places called Dartmouth, see Dartmouth Dartmouth College is a private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Trustees of Dartmouth College vs. ...

The younger Francis graduated from Dartmouth in 1870 and from the Union Theological Seminary in 1877, and then studied in Berlin. In 1879 he became instructor in biblical philology at the Union Theological Seminary, in 1881 an associate professor of the same subject, and in 1890 professor of Hebrew and cognate languages. Berlin (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Union Theological Seminary is an independent college of theology, located in Manhattan, in New York City. ... The Modern Hebrew language is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ...

Dr Brown's published works won him honorary degrees from the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, as well as from Dartmouth and Yale; they are, with the exception of The Christian Point of View (1902; with Profs. AC McGiffert and GW 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 SR Driver and CA Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1891-1905). The University of Glasgow is the largest of the three universities in Glasgow, Scotland. ... The University of Oxford, situated in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... Arthur Cushman McGiffert (March 4, 1861 _ 1933), American theologian, was born in Sauquoit, New York, the son of a Presbyterian clergyman of Scottish descent. ... Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (February 3, 1786 - October 23, 1842), was a German orientalist and Biblical critic. ... Samuel Rolles Driver (October 2, 1846 - 1914), English divine and Hebrew scholar, was born at Southampton. ... Charles Augustus Briggs (January 15, 1841 _ 1913), American Hebrew scholar and theologian, was born in New York City. ...

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