Editing Henry Martyn Baird

{{Short description|American historian and educator}}
{{other people||Harry Baird (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox person
| name = Henry Martyn Baird
| image = File:Henry Martyn Baird with signature - JT White 1898 vol8 p171 - GB.jpg
| birth_date = January 17, 1832
| birth_place = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]
| death_date = November 11, 1906
| death_place = [[New York City, New York]]
| parents = Robert Baird (1798–1863)
| spouse = 
| occupation = Historian and educator
| notable_works = 
}}

'''Henry Martyn Baird''' (January 17, 1832 – November 1906) was an American [[historian]] and educator. He is best known as a historian of the [[Huguenots]].<ref>''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=_14oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA171 vol. 8, p. 171]. New York: James T. White, 1898 (at Google Books).</ref>

==Life==
A son of [[Robert Baird (clergyman)|Robert Baird]] (1798–1863), the [[Presbyterian]] preacher and author who worked both in the [[United States]] and in [[Europe]] for the cause of temperance, Henry Martyn Baird was born in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], on January 17, 1832. The younger Baird spent eight years of his early youth with his father in [[Paris]] and [[Geneva]], and in 1850 graduated from [[New York University]]. He then lived for two years in [[Italy]] and [[Greece]], was a student in the [[Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York|Union Theological Seminary]] in [[New York City]] from 1853 to 1855 and, in 1856, graduated from the [[Princeton Theological Seminary]].

Employed for four years as a tutor at the [[Princeton University|College of New Jersey]] (now Princeton University), Henry Martyn Baird was then employed as a professor of [[Greek language]] and literature at New York University from 1859 until his death.

==Works==
Henry Martyn Baird's research and writing regarding the Huguenots appeared in three parts, entitled respectively ''History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France'' (2 vols, 1879), ''The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre'' (2 vols, 1886), and ''The Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes'' (2 vols, 1895), and was described by the ''[[1911 Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' as being "characterized by painstaking thoroughness, by a judicial temper, and by scholarship of a high order".<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Baird, Henry Martyn}}</ref>

He also published ''Modern Greece, A Narrative of a Residence and Travels in that Country'' (1856); a biography of his father, ''The Life of the Rev. Robert Baird, D.D.'' (1866); and ''[[Theodore Beza]], the Counsellor of the French Reformation'' (1899).

Baird was elected as a member to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1884.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1884;smode=advanced;f1-date=1884;startDoc=1|access-date=2021-05-21|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He died in New York City in November 1906.

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Gutenberg author |id=25526| name=Henry Martyn Baird}}
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* {{Librivox author |id=9367}}
* {{cite BDA1906 |wstitle= Baird, Henry Matrin |volume= 1 |page=188 |short=1}}

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