Day, George Edward

D.D. (Marietta College, 1856), Congregationalist; b. at Pittsfield, Ma ., March 19, 1815; graduated at Yale College 1833; was instructor two years in the New-York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; graduated at the Yale Divinity School 1838, in which he was a istant instructor in sacred literature from 1838 to 1840. For the next ten years he 62 was a Congregational pastor, first in Marl borough, and then North amp ton, Ma . From 1851 to 1866 he was profe or of biblical literature in Lane (Presbyterian) Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, O.; and since then has been profe or of the Hebrew language and biblical theology in the Yale Divinity School (Congregational), New Haven, Conn.; was secretary, from its organization, of the American Bible Revision Committee, in which he served as a member of the Old-Testament Company. He published two extended reports of his personal examination of the condition of deaf-mute instruction in Europe, especially in regard to mechanical articulation, 1845 and 1861; established and edited The Theological Eclectic, a repertory of foreign theological literature, 1863-70, for which he translated from the Dutch, and also published separately, Van Oosterzee's Biblical Theology of the New Testament, 1871. He also translated, with additions, Van Oosterzee on Titus, for Dr. Schaff's edition of Lange's Commentary, New York; and edited the American i ue of Oehler's Biblical Theology of the Old Testament, with an introduction and additional notes, 1883.