单词 | van dyck, cornelius |
释义 | Van Dyck, CorneliusVan Dyck, Cornelius (Van Allen)(1818–95) scholar, medical missionary; born in Kinderhook, N.Y. He graduated from 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 (1843–49). In 1857, he took up the uncompleted work of Eli Smith; 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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