Henry Julian White (27 August 1859 – 16 July 1934) was an English biblical scholar.[1]
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White was born in Islington, north London,[2] the second son of Henry John White. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 11 October 1878, graduating B.A. in 1882 (M.A. 1885).[3] He was ordained in 1886, becoming the domestic chaplain of John Wordsworth in the same year. He was Chaplain and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, where he taught theology, from 1895 to 1905;[4] and a Fellow of King's College London from 1905 to 1920. He assisted Wordsworth in producing an edition of the Vulgate Bible. He was also co-author of A Grammar of the Vulgate. He was Dean of Christ Church in Oxford from 1920 to 1934.
White supported the appointment of Albert Einstein as a Student (Fellow) at Christ Church, despite opposition by J. G. C. Anderson on nationalistic and perhaps even xenophobic (according to White) grounds in the early 1930s.[5]
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Further reading
- Souter, A. (1 January 1935). "Henry Julian White and the Vulgate". The Journal of Theological Studies. os–XXXVI (141): 11–13. doi:10.1093/jts/os-XXXVI.141.11. ISSN 0022-5185 – via Oxford Academic.