Adoniram Judson

Adoniram Judson , 1788-1850, American Baptist missionary, b. Malden, Mass. At Andover Theological Seminary, he became the leader of a missionary movement out of which grew the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. As a Congregational minister, Judson sailed (1812) for India. After conversion to the Baptist faith, he went (1813) to Myanmar, where he remained for 30 years. In 1845 he visited the United States, and on his return to Moulmein (1846; now Mawlamyine) he completed and published (1849) his Dictionary, English and Burmese. He had also translated the Bible into Burmese. The Judson Memorial Church in New York City is named for him.

Bibliography: See biographies by his son Edward Judson (1883), S. R. Warburton (1937), and C. Anderson (1956); V. E. Robinson, The Judsons of Burma (1966).

Judson, Adoniram (1788–1850), Massachusetts‐born Baptist missionary in Burma, endured extreme hardships in founding his mission, including 17 months' imprisonment during the war with the British. He translated the Bible into Burmese and was the author of an English‐Burmese dictionary. He is the subject of several romantic biographies, and of Honoré Morrow's novel The Splendor of God (1929).

Emily [ Chubbuck] Judson (1817–54), his third wife, returned from Burma to New York, where she wrote several popular moralistic works, including Alderbrook (1847), rural sketches and poems, and Allen Lucas, the Self‐Made Man (1847), a novel. She used the pseudonym Fanny Forester.

Judsonia, Arkansas/USA Named after the Revd Adoniram Judson, a Baptist missionary.