William Frederic Badè Books

William Frederic Badè was a broadly learned scholar with diverse interests, best known as the literary executor and biographer of John Muir. Badè was also an archaeologist who led excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh in Palestine, now believed to be the biblical city of Mizpah in Benjamin based on his work. He was an ordained Moravian minister, a professor of ancient languages, a theologian and Bible scholar, a mountaineer, a conservationist, and a naturalist. He served on the faculties of the Moravian Theological Seminary and the Pacific School of Religion, where he also became interim president and dean, and founded the school's Palestine Institute. He served as president of the Sierra Club from 1919 to 1922 and edited the club's bulletin for twelve years.