Junius, Pranciscus (Francois Du Jon), an emi- nent French Protestant theologian, was born at Bourges in 1545. He studied law at first, but embracing the principles of the Reformation, for which his father suf- i'ered persecution, he removed to Geneva in 1562, to stud J' the dead languages and theologj'. In 1565 he took charge of a Walloon congregation at Antwerp ; the party troubles of the time, however, obUged him to with- draw first to a church in Limburg, and finally to Ger- many. Frederick II welcomed him at Heidelberg, and he obtained a church in the Palatinate. During the war of 1568 he lived in the Low Countries, and was chaplain of the Prince of Orange. He afterwards again returned to his charge, and remained there until 1573, when he was called to Heidelberg by the elector, to take part with Tremellius in the translation of the Old Tes- tament. After being also for a while proiessor of the- ology at Heidelberg, he retunied to France in 1592 with the duke of Bouillon, and was employed by Henry IV on a mission to Germany. Later he accepted a profes- sorship at Leyden, where he remained until his death in 1602. His principal work was the Latin transla- tion of the Old Testament, which he executed in con- junction with Tremellius. It appeared in five parts, the first containing the five books of Moses (Franktbrt, 1575, folio) ; the second embracing the historical books, 1576 ; the third the poetical books, 1579 ; the fourth the prophets, 1579; and the fifth the apocryphal books, 1579. After the death of Tremelhus the translation was revised by his colleague, and printed at London, 1584, 8vo. In the course of twenty years it passed through twentj' editions, and was printed for the last time at Zurich, 1764, 8vo. Junius lived to superintend a third edition, 1596, folio ; but the best edition probably is the seventh, published in 1624, folio, containing a good index by Paul Tossanus. " The index was published in a volume by itself at Frankfort, 1687, folio, and repeat- edly after. The translation cannot be called elegant; it is too literal, and is sometimes obsciure on that ac- count. It is also disfigured with useless glosses and rabbinical traditions" (Kitto). He wrote besides, Apoc- ali/pseos Anali/sis (1592) : — Grammatica Unrjuce llehrcea (3d edition, \m?>)\—Acta Apostuh,ri(,n </ 'ijdMuke 2 -S'. Puulli ad Corinth, ex Arahica traii^ldtinii, Ijitine red- dita: — Procataclema ad V. T. intiijm /(ifii'„< in : — P?-cb- lectiones in 3 priora capita Geneseos: — Exjdicatio 4:pri~ orum Psalmomm: — Psalmus 101, seu principis Chris- tiani institutio : — Comment, in Ezechielem : ^^ Expositio Danielis: — Lectiones in Jonam: — Sacra paralkla : — Not(r in Epistolam S.Judee. His Ope7-a theolof/ica were published at Geneva in 1613, in two vols, folii^. and are partly exegetical, partly philological and polemic. His autobiography, which is published at the beginning of his works, was written in 1595, and is the source of his biographies published by INIelch. Adam and in Bayle's Dictionary. See Haag. La France Protestante ; Herzog, Real-Enci/Hop. s. v. ; Kitto, s. v. (J. H. W.)
Junius, Robert, a Dutch missionarj', a native of Delft, who flourished in the 17th centurj', was sent by the Dutch government to the western part of the island of Formosa in 1634, and was eminently successful in hia
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missionan- labors. He is said to have baptized no less than six thousand persons. He also provided good ed- ucational advantages for the natives, and over six hun- dred young men crowded the schools he had founded. Of his personal history in other respects we are ignorant. His literary labors were confined to efforts in behalf of the peoplcto whom he was sent. He composed some prayers, and translated certain Psalms into the Formosan language. He retiu-ned to Holland in after days, but the^date of his death is not known to us. See Mos- heim, Eccles. Hist, iii, bk. iv, cent, xvii, sect. 1, note 24.
Junkin, George, D.D., LL.D., a Presbyterian min- ister of note, was born '\x\ Kingston, Cumberland Coun- tv. Pa., Nov. 1, 1790, entered Jefferson College in 1809, and graduated in 1813. While at college he was con- verted (1811), and upon the completion of his collegiate studies he entered at once on a theological course of study under Dr. John M. Mason in New York city, was ordained at Gettysburg, Pa., in 1818, and remained in the pastorate,' though teaching and editing a paper a part of the time, till 1830. He was principal of Pennsyl- vania Manual Labor Academy at Germantown, Pa., from 1830 to 1832; president of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., from 1832 to 1841; president of Miami University from 1841 to 1844; was then recalled to the presidency of Lafayette College ; and was president of Washington College, Lexington, Ya., from 1848 to 18G1, when,on the secession of Virginia, he left the college, his home, and his property. Lafayette College thereafter honored him with an Emeritus professorship. He died May 20, 1868. " Dr. Junkin for many years maintained a great influ- ence in the Church courts, sustained by his thorough knowledge of every subject on which he attempted to speak, and the keen logic with which he exposed the fallacies in the arguments of his opponents. \n 1844 he was moderator of the General Assembly. In 1833 he received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson College, and in 185() that of LL.D. from Rutgers College. Dr. Jun- kin performed an amazing amount of work in his life- time. His preaching record shows that he delivered a larger number of sermons than most pastors do, while his toils in building up and reviving colleges, in labo- rious agencies, in ecclesiastical labors in the Church courts, in the professor's chair, at the editor's desk, and through the press, in his numerous books, sermons, and essays, make us wonder how he could find the time and endure the labor of doing so much." He published The Educator, a periodical, in 1838; The Vindication, con- taining a history of the trial of the Rev. Albert Barnes by the Second Presbytery and by the Synod of Phila- delphia, in 183C; A Treatise on Justijication, in 1839; The Little Utone and the Great Inuvje, or Lectures on the Prophecies, in 184^1; The Great Apostasi/, a sermon on Romanism, in 1853; Political Fallacies, in 18G2; A Treati,ie on Sanctijtcution, in ISGi; and 7'he Tuhernacle, or the Gospel uccording to Moses, in 18G5. See Index volume (No. 2) to Princeton Revieic, p. 226 sq.