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Fenton John Anthony Hort (
April 23,
1828–
November 30,
1892) was an
Irish theologian and editor, with
Brooke Westcott of a critical edition of the
The New Testament in the Original Greek.
He was born in
Dublin, the great-grandson of
Josiah Hort,
Archbishop of Tuam in the
eighteenth century. In 1846 he passed from
Rugby School to
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was the contemporary of
EW Benson,
BF Westcott and
JB Lightfoot. The four men became lifelong friends and fellow-workers. In 1850 Hort took his degree, being third in the classical
tripos, and in 1852 he became fellow of his college. In 1854, in conjunction with
JEB Mayor and Lightfoot, he established the
Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, and plunged eagerly into theological and patristic study. He had been brought up in the strictest principles of the Evangelical school, but at Rugby he fell under the influence of
Thomas Arnold and
Archibald Campbell Tait, and his acquaintance with
John Frederick Denison Maurice and
Charles Kingsley finally gave his opinions a direction towards
Liberalism.
In 1857 he was married, and accepted the college living of
St Ippolyts, near
Hitchin, in
Hertfordshire, where he remained for fifteen years. During his time there he took part in discussions on university reform, continued his studies, and wrote essays for various periodicals. In 1870 he was appointed a member of the committee for revising the translation of the
New Testament, and in 1871 he delivered the Hulsean lectures before the university. Their title was
The Way, the Truth, and the Life, but they were not prepared for publication until many years after their delivery. In 1872 he accepted a fellowship and lectureship at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge; in 1878 he was made Hulsean professor of divinity, and in 1887
Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity.
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. Hort died on
30 November 1892, worn out by intense mental labour. 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, 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. (1896).
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