Humphrey Hody
Humphrey Hody (1659 – 20 January 1707) was an English scholar and theologian.
Life
He was born at Odcombe in Somerset in 1659.[1] In 1676 he entered Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became a fellow in 1685.[2] In 1692 he became chaplain to Edward Stillingfleet, bishop of Worcester, and for his support of the ruling party in a controversy with Henry Dodwell regarding the non-juring bishops he was appointed chaplain to Archbishop John Tillotson, an office which he continued to hold under Thomas Tenison.[3]
In 1698 he was appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford, and in 1704 was made archdeacon of Oxford.[3]
Works
In 1684 he published Contra historiam Aristeae de LXX. interpretibus dissertatio, in which he argued that the so-called "
In 1689 Hody wrote the Prolegomena to the Greek chronicle of John Malalas, published at Oxford in 1691. In 1701 he published A History of English Councils and Convocations,[5] and in 1703 in four volumes De Bibliorum textis originalibus,[6] in which he included a revision of his work on the Septuagint,[7] and published a reply to Vossius.[3]
A work, De Graecis Illustribus, which he left in manuscript, was published in 1742 by Samuel Jebb, who prefixed to it a Latin life of the author.[3]
References
- ^ "Humphrey Hody (1659–1706)". Chalmers. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Hieron-Horridge
- ^ a b c d e public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hody, Humphrey". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 559. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ISBN 978-0521405362.
- ISBN 978-1-173-57826-8.
- ^ Hody, Humphrey (1705). De bibliorum textibus originalibus, versionibus graecis, et latina Vulgata. Thef. Scheldoniano.
- ^ "Humphrey Hody". Glued Ideas. Retrieved 26 August 2012.