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1863–1934
Best known for bringing New Testament Greek scholarship to generations of pastors and students, this influential Baptist teacher combined serious learning with a lifelong commitment to the church. His books—especially on Greek grammar and New Testament studies—remained widely used long after his death.

by A. T. Robertson, John Albert Broadus

by A. T. Robertson
Born in Virginia in 1863 and raised in North Carolina, A. T. Robertson became one of the best-known Southern Baptist scholars of his era. He studied at Wake Forest College and later at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, where he was deeply shaped by the teacher and preacher John A. Broadus.
Robertson spent most of his career at Southern Seminary, serving as a professor of New Testament for decades. He was especially known for his work in Koine Greek and for writing substantial scholarly tools that helped ministers and students read the New Testament more closely.
He died in 1934, but his influence continued through reference works, classroom texts, and devotional scholarship that stayed in circulation for many years. He is still remembered as a major figure in Baptist biblical studies and as a careful, energetic interpreter of the Greek New Testament.