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Born 1827 Culpeper County, Virginia Occupation Preacher, seminary president and professor Relatives Gessner Harrison (father-in-law) Died March 16, 1895, Louisville, Kentucky, United States Education University of Virginia, Brown University Organizations founded Southern Baptist Theological Seminary People also search for James Petigru Boyce, Edwin Charles Dargan, Alvah Hovey Books On the Preparation And Deliv, Commentary on Matthew, Lectures on the history of, A Gentleman And A Sc, Baptist Confessions - Covenant | ||
John Albert Broadus (1827–1895) was an American Baptist pastor and President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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Early life
John Albert Broadus was born in 1827 in Culpeper County, Virginia. He was educated at home and at a private school. He taught in a small school before completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Career
Broadus was ordained in 1850, became pastor of the Baptist church in Charlottesville. He delivered a lecture at the University of Virginia in memorial to Professor Gessner Harrison in 1873. A decade later, in 1883, he delivered an address on the Confederate cause at Louisville's Cave Hill Cemetery. The address was an important part of reunion, for it argued that both sides were partly correct in their positions that led to war.
In 1859, Broadus became professor of New Testament interpretation and homiletics at the new Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. During the American Civil War, he served as a Confederate chaplain to Robert E. Lee's army in Northern Virginia. In 1888, he became Southern Seminary's second president.
In 1889, Broadus delivered the Beecher Lectures at Yale Divinity School.
Personal life
Broadus married Maria Harrison, the daughter of Gessner Harrison (1807–62), Professor of Ancient Languages at the University of Virginia. Broadus's second marriage was to Charlotte Eleanor Sinclair (1836–1913) on January 4, 1859.
Death
Broadus died in 1895.
Legacy
Charles Spurgeon deemed Broadus the "greatest of living preachers." Church historian Albert Henry Newman later said "perhaps the greatest man the Baptists have produced."