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EDWIN HATCH (1835-1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 61 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWIN See also:HATCH (1835-1889)  , See also:English theologian, was See also:born at See also:Derby on the 14th of See also:September 1835, and was educated at See also:King See also:Edward's school, See also:Birmingham, under See also:James See also:Prince See also:Lee, afterwards See also:bishop of See also:Manchester . He had many struggles to pass through in See also:early See also:life, which tended to discipline his See also:character and to See also:form the habits of severe study and the See also:mental See also:independence for which he came to be distinguished . See also:Hatch became See also:scholar of See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:Oxford, took a second-class in See also:classics in 1857, and won the Ellerton See also:prize in 1858 . He was See also:professor of classics in Trinity College, See also:Toronto, from 1859 to 1862, when he became See also:rector of the high school at See also:Quebec . In 1867 he returned to Oxford, and was made See also:vice-See also:principal of St See also:Mary See also:Hall, a See also:post which he held until 1885 . In 1883 he was presented to the living of Purleigh in See also:Essex, and in 1884 was appointed university reader in ecclesiastical See also:history . In 188o he was See also:Bampton lecturer, and from 188o to 1884 Grinfield lecturer on the See also:Septuagint . In 1883 the university of See also:Edinburgh conferred on him the D.D. degree . He was the first editor of the university See also:official See also:Gazette (1879), and of the Student's See also:Hand-See also:book to the University . A reputation acquired through certain contributions to the See also:Dictionary of See also:Christian Antiquities was confirmed by his See also:treatises On the Organization of the Early Christian Chierches (1881, his Bampton lectures), and on The See also:Influence of See also:Greek Ideas and Usages on the Christian See also:Church (the Hibbert lectures for 1888) . These See also:works provoked no little See also:criticism on See also:account of the See also:challenge they threw down to the high-church party, but the See also:research and fairness displayed were admitted on all hands . The Bampton lectures were translated into See also:German by See also:Harnack .

Among his other works are The Growth of Church Institutions (1887); Essays in Biblical Greek (1889); A See also:

Concordance to the Septuagint (in collaboration with H . A . Redpath); Towards See also:Fields of See also:Light (See also:verse, 1889); The See also:God of See also:Hope (sermons with memoir, 1890) . Hatch died on the loth of See also:November 1889 . An appreciation by W . Sanday appeared in The Expositor for See also:February 189o .

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I understand that he wrote words to the great hymn, "Breathe on Me, Breath of God."
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