F. J. A. Hort
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Born | Fenton John Anthony Hort 23 April 1828 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 30 November 1892 , England | (aged 64)
Spouse |
Fanny Dyson (m. 1857) |
Ecclesiastical career | |
Religion | Christianity (Anglican) |
Church | Church of England |
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Academic background | |
The New Testament in the Original Greek (1881) |
Fenton John Anthony Hort
Life
He was born on 23 April 1828 in
In 1857 he was married, and accepted the college living of
Hort died on 30 November 1892 in Cambridge. He is buried in the Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge.
Works
In 1881 he published, with his friend Westcott, an edition of the text of the New Testament based on their text critical work. The Revision Committee had largely accepted this text, even before its publication, as a basis for their translation of the New Testament. Its appearance created a sensation among scholars, and it was attacked in many quarters, but on the whole it was received as being much the nearest approximation yet made to the original text of the New Testament. The introduction was the work of Hort.[4] His first principle was, "Knowledge of Documents should precede Final Judgments upon Readings".
Next to his Greek Testament his best-known work is The Christian Ecclesia (1897). Other publications are: Judaistic Christianity (1894); Village Sermons (two series); Cambridge and other Sermons; Prolegomena to ... Romans and Ephesians (1895); The Ante-Nicene Fathers (1895); and two Dissertations, (1876) on the reading of a Greek word in John i.18, and on The Constantinopolitan and other Eastern Creeds in the Fourth Century. All are models of exact scholarship and skilful use of materials. His Life and Letters was edited by his son, Sir Arthur Hort, Bart, in two volumes published in 1896: Volume 1, Volume 2.
Other
Hort was a member of the Cambridge Apostles and is credited with writing the oath of secrecy taken by new members, in or around 1851.
See also
- Conflation of Readings
- Textus Receptus
References
- ISBN 978-1-4742-3165-7.
- ^ Graham A. Patrick (2004). "Hort, Fenton John Anthony (1828–1892)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^ a b "Hort, Fenton John Anthony (HRT845FJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hort, Fenton John Anthony". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 740–741. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Emmanuel College
External links
- Works by or about F. J. A. Hort at Internet Archive
- The Way, the Truth, the Life: Hulsean Lectures for 1871 (first printed 1893)
- Greek Text of Hort's "The New Testament in the Original Greek", Vol. 1 with variants
- "F. J. A. Hort". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German).