John Jortin
John Jortin (23 October 1698 – 5 September 1770) was an English church historian.
Life
Jortin was the son of
Works
Jortin briefly (1731–2) established a magazine, Miscellaneous Observations upon Authors, Ancient and Modern, in which he wrote on Spenser and Milton.[2] In 1722 he published a small volume of Latin verse entitled Lusus poetici.[1] Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion (1746) was a work of Christian apologetics. His Remarks on Ecclesiastical History (5 vols, 1751‑73), has been labelled "the most significant Anglican ecclesiastical history of the eighteenth century"; written "from a markedly latitudinarian perspective", it was respected by Gibbon.[2]
Jortin mostly avoided controversy, though a dissertation on
A collection of three volumes of his works was printed in 1805 and can be found at Internet Archive:
- Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion and Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Volume 1
- Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion and Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Volume 2
- Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion and Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Volume 3
References
- ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 513.
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Young, B. W. (2004). "Jortin, John (1698–1770)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15126. Retrieved 24 October 2008. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ s:Rogers, Daniel (1573-1652) (DNB00)
- ^ Sir Robert Rede's Lecturers (and Mathematical Lecturers) Archived 2008-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Jortin, John (JRTN715J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.