He graduated from
Middlebury College in 1814, and from
Andover Theological Seminary in 1818. He was appointed, with Levi Parsons, by the
American Board, to the Palestine mission in 1818, and sailed from
Boston for
Smyrna, 3 November 1819. After travelling extensively in
Greece,
Egypt,
Palestine, and
Syria all then parts of the
Ottoman Empire. In May 1825 he joined a mission already established in Beirut. He died there of fever in the following October. A niece of his,
Fidelia Fisk, was also a noted missionary. Abolitionist
Photius Fisk met Pliny when he was a missionary in Malta in 1822. Photius modeled his life after Pliny and legally changed his name from Kavasales to Fisk by an act of Congress in 1848.
Photius Fisk was a teenager when he met Pliny and dedicated his life to the service of the poor and destitute. ==Work==