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Briggs, Charles Augustus
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| Protestant clergyman and educator, born in New York City, New York, USA. The son of a prosperous businessman, he served briefly with a New York infantry regiment on the outbreak of the Civil War, then entered the Union Theological Seminary, and became professor of Hebrew there (1874). Conservative Presbyterians objected to his scholarly work in Old Testament criticism and he was found guilty in a heresy trial (1890) and suspended from the ministry. He later took orders in the Episcopal Church and was restored to his professorship at Union. |
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