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Biography of Adoniram Judson
Name: Adoniram Judson
Birth Date: August 9, 1788
Death Date: April 12, 1850
Place of Birth: Malden, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: missionary, clergyman
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson (1788-1850), Baptist missionary, was the first American clergyman to devote himself to Christianizing Burma.Adoniram Judson was born in Malden, Mass., on Aug. 9, 1788. His father, a Congregationalist minister, encouraged Adoniram's ambitions, and he was pressed toward intellectual excellence by his forceful mother as well. He entered the sophomore class of Brown University at the age of 16. Graduating first in his class in 1807, he taught school at Plymouth while preparing The Young Lady's Arithmetic and Elements of English Grammar. In 1808, uncertain about a permanent vocation, he began a short tour of the North. He entered Andover Seminary in 1808 but did not announce his ministerial intentions until 1809.Influenced by contemporary romantic sentiments for preaching to the heathen, Judson joined other youthful seminarians in forming the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1810). In 1811 the board dispatched him to seek joint missionary action with the London Missionary Society. The ship on which …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…missionary, became Judson's second wife. Several months after her death in 1845, he married Emily Chubbuck. In his last four years at Moulmein, Judson completed his Dictionary, English and Burmese. He died at sea on April 12, 1850. His contemporaries considered Judson one of America's greatest missionary leaders, and his colorful adventures, publicized in press and pulpit, helped stimulate the missionary spirit in Protestant America. Further Reading The standard work on Judson is Francis Wayland, A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D. (2 vols., 1853). See also Edward Judson, The Life of Adoniram Judson (1883); Stacy R. Warburton, Eastward! The Story of Adoniram Judson (1937); and Courtney Anderson, To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson (1956).Anderson, Courtney, To the Golden Shore: the life of Adoniram Judson, Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1987. McElrath, William N., To be the first: adventures of Adoniram Judson, America's first foreign missionary, Nashville: Broadman Press, 1976.
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