BAIRD, HENRY MARTYN (1832-1906), American his torian and educator, was born in Philadelphia on Jan. 17, 183 2. He spent eight years of his early youth with his father in Paris and Geneva, and in 1850 was graduated from New York uni versity. He then lived for two years in Italy and Greece, was a student in the Union theological seminary in New York, and in 1856 graduated at the Princeton theological seminary. He was a tutor for four years in the College of New Jersey (now Prince ton university), and from 1859 until his death was professor of Greek language and literature in New York university. He is best known, however, as a historian of the Huguenots. His work, which appeared in three parts, entitled respectively History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France (1879), The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre (i886), and The Huguenots and the Revo cation of the Edict of Nantes (1895), is characterized by pains taking thoroughness, by a judicial temper, and by scholarship of a high order. He also published Modern Greece (1856) ; a biog raphy of his father, The Life of the Rev. Robert Baird, D. D. (1866) ; and Theodore Beza, the Counsellor of the French Ref ormation (i899). He died in New York city on Nov. i1, 1906.
His brother, CHARLES WASHINGTON BAIRD (1828-1887), a graduate of New York university (1848) and of the Union the ological seminary (1852), and a minister at Brooklyn and Rye, N.Y., also published a scholarly work, History of the Huguenot Emigration to America (2 vols., 1885), left unfinished at his death.