Frank E. Gaebelein

Frank Ely Gaebelein was an American evangelical educator, author, and editor who was the founding headmaster of The Stony Brook School in Long Island, New York. He is the author of more than twenty books, and also served as editor for Our Hope , Christianity Today, and Eternity magazines, style editor for the translation committee of the New International Version of the Bible, and general editor for the 12volume Expositors Bible Commentary.

Gaebelein was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest of three sons, to German immigrants Arno Clemons Gaebelein and Emma Fredericka Gaebelein. His father was a noted preacher and outspoken early leader of the dispensationalist and fundamentalist movements. Frank graduated from Mount Vernon High School, where he was editor of the yearbook with E. B. White . He earned his B.A. from New York University , where he was the piano soloist performing with the University Glee Club. Gaebeleins studies were interrupted briefly in 1918 to serve in the U.S. Army, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. He earned his A.M. from Harvard University , where he studied English and comparative literature. In 1923, Gaebelein married Dorothy Laura , with whom he had three children Dorothy Laura G. Hampton, Donn Medd, and Gretchen Elizabeth Gaebelein Hull , Dr. Rev. Sanford Hull , and Meredyth Hull Smith .

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