Memoir of Rev. David Tappan Stoddard: Missionary to the Nestorians
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Grammar Of The Modern Syriac Language: As Spoken In Oroomiah, Persia, And In Koordistan
David Tappan Stoddard
Printed by B.L. Hamlen for the American Oriental Society, 1855
History; General; History / General; Syriac language, Modern
David Tappan Stoddard was an American missionary among the Nestorians.
Background
David was born on December 2, 1818 at Northampton, Massachussets, United States, the son of Solomon and Sarah (Tappan) Stoddard. His father, a lawyer and a member of the General Court, was a great-grandson of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard who was pastor of the church at Northampton for fifty-seven years and one of whose daughters was the mother of Jonathan Edwards.
On his mother's side, David was a nephew of Arthur, Benjamin, and Lewis Tappan, and was related to Benjamin Franklin. He was named for a great-uncle who was professor of divinity at Harvard; his older brother, Solomon, won distinction as a Latinist.
It is thus not surprising that David was a youth of promise and predisposed to both scholarship and religion. His mother hoped that he would enter the ministry and gave him careful religious instruction.
As a boy he was active physically, although never robust, and was interested in mechanics.
Education
He studied at Round Hill School, Northampton, and in 1834, vivacious and attractive, entered Williams College as a sophomore. After a year there he transferred to Yale, where he graduated in 1838.
During his first year at Yale, however, a profound religious experience had decided him to enter the ministry, and therefore, declining invitations to teach science in two Western colleges, he entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1839.
Career
Transferring after a year to Yale, he was a tutor there, 1840-42, meanwhile studying theology. He was licensed in 1842 in western Massachusetts, having some difficulty because of his adherence to the "New Haven theology, " then regarded as heretical by the Calvinists of the older school, and was ordained in New Haven, January 27, 1843. At the time of his religious awakening in 1836, Stoddard had thought of becoming a missionary. That purpose, half forgotten, was reawakened in 1842 by contact with the Rev. Justin Perkins, on furlough from Persia.
Accordingly, in 1843 after his ordination he went to Northwestern Persia under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions as a missionary among the Nestorians. In Oroomiah (Urmia), he was placed at the head of the chief school for boys conducted by his mission, and continued in charge after the school was moved to Seir. He also preached among the Nestorian churches. Persistently unwell, however, he returned in 1848 to the United States in an effort to regain his health.
On the way, at Trebizond, his wife died. While in America he spoke extensively on missions, and for a time was in charge of two publications of his board, the Dayspring and the Journal of Missions. After the death of Mary Lyon, in 1849, the trustees of Mount Holyoke Seminary approached him with a view to the possibility of his succeeding her as the head of that institution. His heart was in Persia, however, and in 1851 he returned to resume his headship of the seminary at Seir. He was also in charge of a church ten miles away and did a great deal of preaching there and elsewhere.
He died at Seir, of typhus contracted while on a journey to Tabriz on business for his mission.
Achievements
David Tappan Stoddard was a scolar and authoruty of the Turkish and Persian languages and became something of an expert in Syriac. He aided Perkins in the translation of the New Testament into modern Syriac and prepared "A Grammar of the Modern Syriac Language, as Spoken in Oroomiah, Persia, and in Koordistan".
He was also the author of an arithmetic for the Nestorians, published by his mission. He continued his interest in the natural sciences, and through his knowledge of astronomy won the respect of some of the scholars of his district.
