William D. Reynolds, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William D. Reynolds

American translator

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1867

Place of Birth: Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1951

Profession: translator, Bible translator

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

William D.
Reynolds (Korean: ???; Hanja: ???, 1867–1951) was an American Southern Presbyterian (PCUS) missionary and Bible translator in Korea. William Davis Reynolds was born 12 November 1867.
He received his undergraduate education at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.
Subsequently he studied theology at Union Presbyterian Seminary.
He completed the first translation of the Old Testament into Korean in 1910. He worked with Horace G.
Underwood and James Scarth Gale among the American Northern Presbyterian Mission, and Henry G.
Appenzeller and William B.
Scranton among the American Methodist Episcopal Mission, and with Lee Seung Doo (???) and Kim Jeong Sam (???) as Korean translation assistants.
Their efforts lead to the first Korean translation of the New Testament, and the first Korean Hymnal. From 1917-1937 he was professor in Systematic Theology and Biblical Languages at Pyongyang Presbyterian Theological Seminary.