Background
Hume, Robert Ernest was born on March 20, 1877 in Ahmednagar, Bombay Presidency, India. Son of Review Robert A. (Doctor of Divinity) and Abbie (Burgess) H.
Hume, Robert Ernest was born on March 20, 1877 in Ahmednagar, Bombay Presidency, India. Son of Review Robert A. (Doctor of Divinity) and Abbie (Burgess) H.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1898, Master of Arts, 1900, Doctor of Philosophy., 1901. Bachelor of Divinity, Union Theological Seminary, 1904. Matriculated in University of Göttingen, Germany.
D. Theological, Strasbourg, 1932.
Ordained Congleton ministry, 1905. Went to India as missionary Bachelor of Arts C.F.M., 1907. Professor history of religions, Union Theological Seminary, 1914-1943, professor emeritus since 1943.
Lecturer at Bombay University and University of the Punjab. Also at Hindu University, Benares. The Moslem University, Aligarh.
Vishwas Bharati (Greater India) University, Bolpur. And College of His Highness the Maharajah of Baroda, 1923. Indian Institute Oxford University, 1938.
Author: The World’s Living Religions, 1924, 32nd edit., 1946 (translation into Spanish). Treasure House of the Living Religions, 1932, 2d edition., 1933. Translator from Sanskrit.
Thirteen Principal Upanishads, with an Outline of the Philosophy of the Upanishads, 1921, 3d edit., 1934. Contributor to religious and theological journals, India and America. His book, The World’s Living Religions, the only religious book beside the Bible to be placed in “time capsule” (50 feet below ground), New York World’s Fair 1939.
To be opened in 6939.
Member American Oriental Society, American Theol Society (president 1939), American Association for Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Laura Caswell, March 15, 1907. Children: Robert Caswell, Edward Putnam, Jane Williams.