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Matthias Bruen <ref name="term_28124" />

<p> a Presbyterian minister, was born in Newark, N. J., April 11, 1793. After an excellent religious and academical education, he graduated at [[Columbia]] College 1812. In 1816 he was licensed to preach, but, on account of ill health, he went to Europe, where he remained nearly three years, during six months of which he preached at "the American [[Chapel]] of the Oratory" in Paris. [[Returning]] in 1819, he again visited Europe in 1821. In 1822 he entered on home missionary work in New York, and under his labors a church grew up in Bleecker Street, of which he became pastor in 1825. He died Sept. 6, 1829, after a short illness. He published Essays descriptive of Scenes in Italy and [[France]] (Edinburgh), and contributed to various periodicals. A memoir of him by Mrs. Duncan, of Scotland, was published in 1831. '''''—''''' Sprague, Annals, 4, 544. </p>

 

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