Daniel Neal
Daniel Neal (14 December 1678 – 4 April 1743) was an English historian.
Biography
Born in
In 1720 Neal published his History of New England, which obtained for its author the honorary degree of MA from Harvard College. He also undertook to assist Dr John Evans in writing a history of Nonconformity. Evans, however, died in 1730, and, making use of his papers for the period before 1640, Neal wrote the whole of the work himself.[1]
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The History of the Puritans was edited, in five volumes, by Dr Joshua Toulmin (1740–1815), who added a life of Neal in 1797. This was reprinted in 1817, and an edition in two volumes was published in New York in 1844.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Neal, Daniel". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 320. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
Additional Literature
- Bracy V. Hill II: Faithful Accounts? The Hampton Court Conference and The King James Bible in Early Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Histories. In: Reformation 16, 2011. S. 113–144. Online: <https://web.archive.org/web/20160518203311/http://essential.metapress.com/content/t524766nn78131p0/fulltext.pdf>
- Bracy V. Hill II: Suffering for their Consciences: The Depiction of Anabaptists and Baptists in the Eighteenth-Century Histories of Daniel Neal. In: Welsh Journal of Religious History 5, 2010. S. 84–113. Reprint Online In "The Baptist History & Heritage" 9, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 39-67 : <http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Suffering+for+their+consciences%3a+the+depiction+of+anabaptists+and...-a0393654230>
- Laird Okie: Daniel Neal and the "Puritan Revolution". In: Church History 55:4, 1986. S. 456–467.
- Laird Okie: Neal, Daniel (1678–1743). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online: <http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19817>
- John Seed: Dissenting Histories: Religious Division and The Politics of Memory in Eighteenth-Century England. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2008. ISBN 0748621512
- Joshua Toulmin: Memoir of the Life of Daniel Neal, A.M.. In: Daniel Neal: The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Nonconformists. Hrsg. von Joshua Toulmin, durchgesehen und annotiert von John O. Choules. Harper & Brothers, New York 1843.
- Walter Wilson: The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark: Including the Lives of Their Ministers, from the Rise of Nonconformity to the Present Time: With an Appendix on the Origin, Progress, and Present State of Christianity in Britain. 4 Bände. W. Button, London 1814. Bes. Band III, S. 91ff.