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Moses was born on March 26, 1780 in Wilton, Connecticut, United States. His father, Isaac Stuart, a descendant of Robert Stewart, who was in Norwalk, Connecticut, about 1660, was a farmer; his mother, Olive (Morehouse) Stuart.
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Moses was born on March 26, 1780 in Wilton, Connecticut, United States. His father, Isaac Stuart, a descendant of Robert Stewart, who was in Norwalk, Connecticut, about 1660, was a farmer; his mother, Olive (Morehouse) Stuart.
He learned to read at the age of four and exhibited unusual intelligence in childhood. In his fifteenth year he was sent to an academy at Norwalk, Connecticut, where he made a brilliant record. He entered the sophomore class at Yale in May 1797, and two years later was graduated at the head of his class, having done particularly well in mathematics.
For the first year after his graduation he taught in an academy at North Fairfield (later Easton), Connecticut During part of the following year he was principal of a high school at Danbury, which he left in order to continue his study of law in Newtown.
He was admitted to the bar at Danbury in 1802, but, having received an appointment for two years as tutor at Yale, he never practised law.
At that time there was probably no native-born American who knew enough Hebrew to teach it properly. Biblical studies were entirely neglected, and the minister who showed too much interest in European Biblical scholarship was suspected of heterodoxy.
He began at once to study Hebrew seriously and wrote a short Hebrew grammar which he circulated among his students in manuscript.
Since no compositor was able to handle it, he had to set most of the type himself. In eight years he was able to add fonts of type for eleven Oriental scripts.
Having mastered Hebrew, he attacked the study of German. While it was hard to convince theologians and clergymen of the value of Hebrew, it was much more difficult to induce them to study German scholarly literature. Indeed, it was twenty years before Stuart's fight for the recognition of the importance of German scholarly work can be said to have triumphed.
His translations include A Greek Grammar of the New Testament (1825), from the German of Georg Benedikt Winer, done with Edward Robinson, 1794-1863, and Hebrew Grammar of Gesenius as Edited by Roediger (1846), also from the German. In a series of elaborate commentaries (published 1827 - 52) on Hebrews, Romans, Revelation, Daniel, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, he showed in detail how German scholarship had revolutionized the field of Biblical studies.
In 1848 he resigned his chair, but he continued his studies and wrote several more books. Four years later he died of an illness which was said to be influenza accompanied by typhoid fever.
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At Yale he became interested in religion, owing to the influence of President Timothy Dwight, 1752-1817, and in 1803 he was licensed to preach. Ordained to the ministry on March 5, 1806, he became pastor of the First Church of Christ (Congregational) in New Haven, where he rapidly achieved a considerable reputation as a preacher.
His mental energy was enormous. Indeed, it was so far ahead of his physical stamina that he was obliged to restrict himself to four hours of study and writing a day, during which he refused to permit any interruption.
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Calvin Ellis Stowe of Andover, who knew him well, describes him as "tall, muscular, and lean; with a sharp and eager face and with rapid, nervous movements".
In 1806 he had married Abigail, daughter of James Clark of Danbury, by whom he had four sons and five daughters. One of his sons was Isaac William Stuart; Austin Phelps was twice his son-in-law.