Edmund Martin Geldart
Edmund Martin Geldart (1844–1885) was an English Anglican priest, Unitarian minister and scholar.
Life
The second son of Thomas Geldart, of
When Geldart was twelve years old his father, having taken on the Manchester City Mission, moved from London to
After spending three months at Oxford, where moved, Geldart went to Manchester Grammar School, then under the mastership of Frederick William Walker. From school he was elected to a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 26 March 1863. Gerard Manley Hopkins was a college friend. He graduated B.A. in 1867, and was appointed assistant-master at Manchester Grammar School.[1][2][3]
A breakdown compelled Geldart to give up his teaching post.[2] He went abroad, and spent time at Athens, where he occupied himself as a teacher, and acquired a knowledge of the language and culture of modern Greece. In 1869 he again accepted a mastership of classics and modern languages at Manchester Grammar School, was ordained deacon by James Prince Lee, the Bishop of Manchester, and became curate of All Saints Church, Manchester. Two years later he took a curacy at St. George's Church, Everton, Liverpool, but did not retain it long: his religious views underwent a change, and in 1872 he joined the Unitarians.[1]
Geldart graduated M.A. in 1873, and from the summer of that year until 1877 he acted as minister of the Hope Street Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool. At this period he was under the influence of the thought of
Death
In poor health, Geldart left home for Paris on 10 April 1885 for a holiday. He embarked at
Works
Geldart was author of:[1]
- The Modern Greek Language in its Relation to Ancient Greek, Clarendon Press, 1870.
- The Living God, 1872, one of the tracts issued by Thomas Scott of Ramsgate.
- The Church at Peace with the World: a Sermon suggested by the Death of David Friedrich Strauss, 1874.
- Translation of the second volume of Theodor Keim's Jesus of Nazara, 1876.
- Faith and Freedom: fourteen Sermons, 1881.
- A Son of Belial: autobiographical Sketches by Nitram Tradleg, 1882, autobiography, with the names of others disguised.
- A Guide to Modern Greek, 1883
- Simplified Grammar of Modern Greek, 1883.
- Sunday for our Little Ones: Unsectarian Addresses to the Young, 1883.
- The Gospel according to Paul: an Essay on the Germs of the Doctrine of the Atonement, 1884.
- Let there be Light: Sermon delivered at the opening of the New Free Christian Church, Croydon, 1884.
- Translation of Johann Georg von Hahn's Folk-Lore of Modern Greece, 1884.
- Translation of Georg Zacher's The Red International, 1885.
- Echoes of Truth: Sermons, &c., 1886, introduction by Charles Barnes Upton, edited by Charlotte Geldart.
Family
On his return to England from Greece, Geldart married Charlotte Frederika Sophia Andler (1841–1923), daughter of a Württemberg government official.[1] They had two children, one being William Martin Geldart.[2]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10505. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Geldart, Edmund Martin
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Geldart, Edmund Martin". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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