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Edwin Munsell Bliss
1848–1919
Born in the Ottoman Empire to missionary parents, he spent years in the Near East before becoming a widely read American writer on missions and religion. He is best remembered for editing major reference works that gathered global missionary history into a single place.
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Turkey and the Armenian atrocities : a reign of terror
by Edwin Munsell Bliss
About the author
Born on September 12, 1848, in Erzurum, Turkey, Edwin Munsell Bliss was the son of American missionary workers and grew up with close ties to the Near East. He studied at Amherst College and later worked for the American Bible Society in the Levant, experiences that shaped much of his writing and editorial work.
Bliss became known as a Congregationalist missionary, author, and editor with a special interest in world missions and religious history. His best-known work is The Encyclopedia of Missions, a large reference project that helped document missionary activity, institutions, and biographies for readers in the English-speaking world.
Later in life, he also served as an expert on religious bodies for the United States Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. He died on August 6, 1919, leaving behind a body of work that reflects both firsthand travel experience and a deep effort to organize information about global Christianity.