Introduction

Biography

Hort was edu­cat­ed at Rug­by School and Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, Cam­bridge (BA in first Class­ic­al Tri­pos 1850, and in the Mo­ral Sci­ence Tri­pos and Na­tur­al Sci­ence Tri­pos, 1851).

In 1854, in con­junc­tion with J. E. B. May­or and Light­foot, he es­tab­lished the Jour­nal of Class­ic­al and Sac­red Phi­lo­lo­gy.

In 1857 he mar­ried, and ac­cept­ed the col­lege liv­ing of St. Ip­po­lyts, near Hitch­in, Hert­ford­shire, where he served 15 years.

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.

Works

• The New Tes­ta­ment in the Orig­in­al Greek, with Dr. West­cott
• Judaistic Chris­ti­an­ity, 1894
• Prolegomena to St. Paul’s Epist­les to the Ro­mans and the Ep­he­sians (Lon­don: Mac­mil­lan, 1895)
• Christian Ec­cle­sia, 1897