Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck

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Cornelius Van Allen Van Dyck, M.D. (1819-1895) was an American missionary, born at Kinderhook, NY, and educated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated as M.D. in 1839. In 1840 he was sent as a medical missionary to Syria (now Lebanon), and was stationed at Beirut, Abeih, and Mount Tabor. He was ordained a minister in 1846. He made himself master of the spoken and written Arabic, and undertook the work left unfinished by the death of Eli Smith of translating the Bible into Arabic. Van Dyck made many translations of religious, scientific, and medical works into Arabic.