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

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

 (183.3-30), he was invited to fill the chair of Biblical Literature in 

 the Newton Theological Institution. He occupied this position until 

 1860 ; and, after spending one year in the service of the American Bible 

 Union, he a(^ce[)ted the appointment of Professor of Biblical Literature 

 in the Rochester Theological Seminary, which position he occu[)ied 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. 



Jn 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 

 sacn-d 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 J^nglish, and his modesty 

 was equal to his learning. 



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

 Viudicta," 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 Floly Land, 1855, which 

 has passed through several editions, and been reprinted 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. 



