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JOSEPH HENRY THAYER (1828-1901)
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THAYER, JOSEPH HENRY (1828-1901), American biblical scholar, was born at Boston on the 7th of November 1828. He studied at the Boston Latin School, and graduated at Harvard in 185o. Subsequently he studied theology at the Harvard Divinity School, and graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1857. He preached in Quincy, and in 1859—64 in Salem, Massachusetts, and in 1862—63 was chaplain of the 4oth Massachusetts Volunteers. He was professor of sacred literature in Andover Seminary in 1864—82, and in 1884 succeeded Ezra Abbot as Bussey professor of New Testament criticism in the Harvard Divinity School. He died on the 26th of November 1901, soon after his resignation from the Bussey professorship. He was a member of the American Bible Revision Committee and recording secretary of the New Testament company. His chief works were his translation of Grimm's Clavis Novi Testa-, menti (1887; revised 1889) as A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, and his New Testament bibliography (1890).