Hannah O'Brien Chaplin
Hannah O'Brien Chaplin | |
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| Born | September 5, 1809 |
| Died | February 18, 1865 (aged 55) |
| Pen name | H. C. Conant |
| Spouse | Thomas Jefferson Conant |
Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant (née, Chaplin; pen name, H. C. Conant; September 5, 1809 – February 18, 1865)[1] was an American biblical scholar.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Hannah O'Brien Chaplin was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, September 5, 1809. She was the daughter of clergyman Jeremiah Chaplin and Marcia S. O'Brien.[2] In 1830, she was married to Thomas Jefferson Conant,[3] and in 1839 she became the editor of The Mother's Monthly Journal.[2] She translated from the German Strauss' Baptism in Jordan, Neander's commentary on Philippians, and works by other authors.[2] Her works are The Earnest Man, a biography of Adoniram Judson (1855), and a Popular History of English Bible Translation (1856).[3] She was an able assistant in her husband's Hebrew studies.[3]
Selected works
[edit | edit source]- The earnest man : a sketch of the character and labors of Adoniram Judson, first missionary to Burmah (1855)
- Popular History of English Bible Translation (1856)
- The English Bible. History of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions (1856)
- The popular history of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions (1880)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Biography In Context. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
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- 1809 births
- 1865 deaths
- Conant family
- People from Danvers, Massachusetts
- American biblical scholars
- German–English translators
- American magazine editors
- American women magazine editors
- 19th-century American journalists
- 19th-century American women journalists
- 19th-century American translators
- American women biblical scholars
- 19th-century pseudonymous writers
- Biblical scholar stubs