Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson - American
Baptist missionary who labored almost 40 years in
Burma (now called
Myanmar).
- born August 9 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts
- son of a Congregational minister
- graduate of Rhode Island College (now Brown University)
- participates in formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- commissioned as a foreign missionary by the Congregational Church
- married Ann Hasseltine February 5, 1812
- converted to Baptist views and baptized in Calcutta, India September 6, 1812
- moved to Burma in 1813
- imprisoned for 21 months during war between England and Burma
- wife Ann died in Amherst, Burma on October 24, 1826
- completed translating Burmese Bible in 1834
- married Sarah Hall Boardman, widow of fellow missionary George Boardman, April 1834
- wife Sarah died in St. Helena, Burma September 1, 1845
- married writer Emily Chubbuck June 2, 1846
- died and buried at sea in the Bay of Bengal April 12 1850
After his conversion to Baptist views on
baptism, Judson's offer to Baptists in the
United States to serve as their missionary resulted in the formation of the
General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions (commonly called the
Triennial Convention) in 1814. Attitudes toward this convention and other auxiliaries would divide the Baptists in America.
External link
References
- Dictionary of Baptists in America, Bill J. Leonard, editor
- Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Norman W. Cox, editor
- To The Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson, by Courtney Anderson