biography
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Van Dyck, Cornelius (Van Allen)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1818–95)
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| biography:
| Scholar and medical missionary, born in Kinderhook, New York, USA. He studied at Jefferson Medical College (1839) and became a medical missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He studied Arabic intensively and ran a high school in Lebanon (1843–9). In 1857 he took up the uncompleted work of Eli Smith, and by 1865 he had made the first modern translation of the Bible into Arabic. He was a professor of pathology at Syrian Protestant College (1867–83). His last work was a translation of Ben Hur into Arabic. |
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