Hamlin, Cyrus

D.D. (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1854; Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1861), LL.D. (University of the City of New York, 1870; Bowdoin College, 1880), Congregationalist; b. at Water ford, Me., Jan. 5, 1811; graduated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1834, and at the Congregational Theological Seminary, Bangoi', Me., 1837; was commi ioned by A. B. C. F. M. 3, 1838 (being delayed by Board's financial straits); opened the Bebek Seminary on the Bosphorus, 1840; became president of Robert College, 1860; foiled Ru ian, French, and Jesuit plots, and obtained imperial edict committing the college to the United States,— an unexampled favor; resigned presidency in 1876; became profe or of dogmatic theology in Bangor Theological Seminary, Me.,. 1877; president of Middle bury College, 1880; resigned 1885, and retired to Lexington, Ma . His writings are principally in the Armenian language, and include a book on Popery and Protestant ism (pp. 350), to counteract Jesuit libels; an expose of the heresies of Archbishop Matteos in his book " True Man and True Christian," a tract on the mediatorship of Christ; and translations of Upham's Philosophy, and Way land's Moral Science, etc. He has published in English, Among the Turks, New York, 1877, and sermons, lectures, reviews, etc.