by Henry M. Baird (Author)

This 2004 Wipf & Stock edition of The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre by Henry Baird is a digital facsimile of the original 1896 edition published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Company.

Author Biography

Henry Martyn Baird (1832-1906), American historian and educationalist, was son of Robert Baird (1798-1863), a Presbyterian preacher and author who worked in both the United States and Europe. Baird spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and Geneva, and in 1850 graduated from New York University. He then lived for two years in Italy and Greece, was a student at the Union Theological Seminary in New York city from 1853 to 1855, and in 1856 graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary. He was a tutor for four years at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and from 1859 until his death was a professor of Greek language and literature at New York University.