Henry Alford
Henry Alford | |
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Born | London, England | 7 October 1810
Died | 12 January 1871 | (aged 60)
Nationality | English |
Occupation(s) | churchman, scholar, poet and writer |
Henry Alford (7 October 1810 – 12 January 1871) was an English churchman, theologian,
Life
Alford was born in London, of a
Service
He had already taken orders, and in 1835 began his eighteen-year tenure of the vicarage of
In 1844, he joined the
In September 1853 Alford moved to
Published works
Alford was a talented artist, as his picture-book The Riviera (1870) shows, and he had abundant musical and mechanical talent. Besides editing the works of
His chief fame rests on his monumental edition of the New Testament in Greek (8 vols.), on which he worked from 1841 to 1861. In this work he first produced a careful collation of the readings of the chief manuscripts and the researches of the ripest continental scholarship of his day.
Alford subsequently published the New Testament for English Readers (4 vols., Rivingtons, 1868). His Life, written by his widow, appeared in 1873 (Rivingtons).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "Alford, Henry (ALFT827H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 9780766154292.
Attribution
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Alford, Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 582. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Bibliography
- Julian, John (June 1907). A Dictionary of Hymnology. London: John Murray. pp. 39–40.
- Bailey, Albert Edward (1950). The Gospel in Hymns. New York: Charles Scribner's sons. pp. 390–392.
- Nutter, Charles S. "Alford, Henry". Charles S. Nutter: Hymn Writers of the Church - Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Hymn Writers of the Church. Retrieved 17 February 2007 – via Christian Classics Ethereal Library.
- Trubshaw, Bob. "St Mary's restoration". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 February 2007.
- Schaff, Philip. "The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge". Retrieved 17 February 2007.
- Geraci, Paolo (March 2000). Loano isola del Ponente. Variazioni su un tema di Alford. I. Gressoney Saint Jean, Ao, I: Monboso Casa Editrice. pp. XXIII–XXIV.
External links
- Article on one of Alford's Hymns[permanent dead link]
- Henry Alford at the Encyclopædia Britannica (1902)
- Works by Henry Alford at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Henry Alford at Internet Archive