John Albert Broadus
1827–1895 · Baptist (United States) · Louisville, Kentucky
John Albert Broadus (1827–1895), one of the founders of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and its president from 1889, taught homiletics and New Testament there for over thirty years. His Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons of 1870 became the standard American textbook on preaching and remained in use for a century.