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==Biography==
[[File:Diaries, David Gordon Lyon, opened to April 4-5, 1925 - Harvard Semitic Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC06069.jpg|thumb|right|Diaries by David Gordon Lyon, opened to April 4-5, 1925]]
Lyon was born in [[Benton, Alabama]], the son of a doctor. He received his A.B. from Howard College (now [[Samford University]]) in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], in 1875. He studied at the [[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]] under [[Crawford Howell Toy]], and went to Germany, where he married Tosca Woehler (d. 1904) and received his Ph.D. from the [[University of Leipzig]] in 1882, in the study of [[Syriac language|Syriac]].<ref name="pfeiffer">{{cite journal|last=Pfeiffer|first=Robert H.|title=David Gordon Lyon (1852-1935)|journal=[[Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]|year=1936|volume=70|issue=10|pages=552–54|jstor=20023182}}</ref>
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