DUNCAN, JOHN (1796-1870), Scottish theologian and Hebraist, was born at Aberdeen and studied at Marischall college. In 1836 he was ordained in the Established Church and given charge of Milton church, Glasgow. After three years as a mis sionary to the Jews in Budapest he was appointed, in 1843, to the chair of Oriental languages in the new Free Church college, Edinburgh. Apart from his 1838 edition of Robinson's Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, Duncan's writings consist largely of sermons and addresses, some of which were edited by J. Steven Sinclaire (1925). He died on Feb. 26, 18 7 0.
See Knight: Colloquia Peripatetica (1870) and Brown: The Late Rev. J. Duncan •