HORATIO BALCH HACKETT. 335 



Tutor in Amherst College, and was then chosen Professor of Ancient 

 Languages in Brown University, in Providence, R.I. After four years 

 (1835-39), he was invited to fill the chair of Biblical Literature in 

 the Newton Theological Institution. He occupied this position until 

 1869 ; and, after spending one year in the service of the American Bible 

 Union, he accepted the appointment of Professor of Biblical Literature 

 in the Rochester Theological Seminary, which position he occupied at 

 the time of his death. He was also for several of the last years of his 

 life a member of the American Committee for the revision of the 

 English Scriptures. 



In 1851-52, Dr. Hackett travelled in Italy, Egypt, Palestine, and 

 other countries. In 1858-59, he resided several months in Athens, 

 for the purpose of studying Modern Greek, as auxiliary to the inter- 

 pretation of the New Testament. 



As a scholar, he was both comprehensive and exact. As a teacher, 

 he combined in rare union the minutest accuracy in details with the 

 most fervid enthusiasm. His love of truth was intense, his devotion to 

 sacred literature absorbing, his industry unsurpassed, and his mind 

 remarkably free from theological and other prepossessions. His com- 

 prehensive- and exact classical scholarship was coupled with an unusual 

 mastery of pure, perspicuous, and picturesque English, and his modesty 

 was equal to his learning. 



His published works are an edition of Plutarch's " De Sera Numinis 

 Vindicta," with notes, Andover, 1844, afterwards republished with 

 additional notes, as the joint work of himself and Professor Tyler, of 

 Amherst ; a Translation of Winer's Chaldee Grammar, with additions, 

 1845 ; a Hebrew Reader, 1847 ; a Commentary on the Book of Acts, 

 1851, republished with considerable enlargement in 1858 ; Illustrations 

 of Scripture, suggested by a Tour through the Holy Land, 1855, which 

 has passed through several editions, and been rejjrinted in England and 

 Scotland, and is his principal work ; Memorials of the War, a volume 

 comprising brief notices of Christian heroes who fell in the service of 

 their country during the civil war; the Epistle of Paul to Philemon, a 

 new Translation with notes for the American Bible Union ; an Ameri- 

 can Edition of Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, with many additions 

 and improvements, of which Dr. Ezra Abbot, of Cambridge, was a 

 joint editor ; and, lastly, many valuable articles contributed from time 

 to time to the Christian Review, and the Bibliotheca Sacra. 



