HARRISON, Max Hunter. Victoria, co. Knox, Illinois 24.12.1893 — Auburndale, co. Middlesex, Mass. 20.2.1986. Rev. U.S. Missionary in India. Son of Jacob Hunter Harrison (1841–1917) and Ellen Wilmetta Levalley. Studied mathematics and Greek at Knox College (B.A. 1913), then at Andower Newton Theological School (B.Th. 1916) and Harvard Divinity School (M.Th. 1917). Ordained priest 1918. Served American Baptist Mission in Sri Lanka and India. Taught 12 years at Jaffna College, then in 1937-54 Principal of United Theological College in Bangalore, taught there Old Testament in 1931-58 and 1963-65. Back in America acting director of Missionary Research Library in New York 1966-67. Ph.D. Columbia University. Married 1922 Minnie Katherine Hastings (1886–1961), two sons. He knew Sanskrit.
Publications: Diss. later publ. as Hindu Monism and Pluralism, as found in the Upanishads and in the Philosophies dependent upon them. 13+324 p. Oxford 1932.
– “The place of Old Testament studies in Indian theological education”, Indian Journal of Theology 5:1, 1956, 1-8; After Ten Years. A Report on Theological Education in India. 71 p. Nagpur 1957.
Sources: Wikipedia; peoplepill.com; Jaffna College Miscellany 1986 with photo (moolaram.net); parents in ancestry.com & findagrave.com.
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