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VERBECK, Guido Fridolin, missionary, born in Zeist, near Utrecht, Holland, 23 January, 1830. He was graduated at the Moravian academy in Zeist in 1848, at Auburn theological seminary in 1859, and was licensed by the presbytery of Cayuga the same year. He went to Japan in May, 1859, as a missionary of the Reformed church, was connected with the government of that country in its education and translation departments in 1869-'78, and early in 1869 was invited to Tokio to help in forming" a national university. He was one of a staff of writers employed in the production of "An Outline History of Japanese Education" for the United States centennial exhibition in 1876, and was engaged in the production of other important publications in Japan. Dr. Verbeck was one of a select committee that brought out the translation of the Bible into the Japanese language in 1887, after many missionaries had labored upon difficult parts of the work for fifteen years. He is president of the University of Tokio, and received the Japanese order of the "Rising Sun" in 1877, and the degree of D. D. from Rutgers in 1875.
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