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Riggs, Elias

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Riggs, Elias (1810–1901)

US linguist and missionary. His extensive missionary career took him to Greece 1832–38, Turkey 1838–44 and 1859–62, Armenia 1844–53, and Constantinople 1853–56. He translated the Scriptures into Armenian and Bulgarian, and worked on a joint translation into the Turkish language in 1878.

He was born in New Providence, New Jersey. His gift for languages emerged by the age of 11; he eventually made use of 7 ancient and 14 modern languages. He graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1832. Three of his sons became ministers and ten of his grandchildren became missionaries.



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