Young, ROBERT

Young, ROBERT, LL.D., biblical scholar, born at Edinburgh, September 10, 1822, was bred a printer, superintended the Mission Press at Surat (1856-61), thereafter devoted himself to the preparation, the printing and publishing at Edinburgh, of a long series of meritorious books of somewhat narrow but remarkable biblical scholarship, working with unbroken industry down till his death, October 14, 1889. Among his books were an independent Translation of the Bible, Marginal Readings (10,000) for the English Testament, Concise Critical Comments on the Holy Bible, Grammatical Analysis of the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek Scriptures, Hebrew Vocabulary, and the laborious Analytical Concordance to the Bible, giving 311,000 references, &c.