Book Title: Heroes and martyrs of the modern missionary enterprise : a record of their lives and labors : including an historical review of earlier missions / edited by Lucius E. Smith ; with an introd. by William B. Sprague

Author: Smith, Lucius E. (Lucius Edwin), 1822-1900

Image Title: Portrait of Adoniram Judson (1788-1850)

Description: Judson was born in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of a Congregational clergyman. He graduated from Brown University in 1807 and became one of the first missionaries sent out by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (A.B.C.F.M.) Soon after arriving in Calcutta, he decided to become a Baptist and broke his connection with the A.B.C.F.M. He was then adopted as a missionary by the American Baptist Missionary Union. Arriving in Burma in 1813, he became proficient in the Burmese language and began to translate the New Testament, eventually also producing a grammar and dictionary of the language. By 1834, he had translated the entire Bible into Burmese and compiled a complete dictionary of the Burmese language. In 1845, he returned briefly to America and, in 1846, went back to Burma where he died in 1850.

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