John Jortin
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Life
Jortin was the son of Renatus Jordain, a Breton Huguenot refugee[1] and government official, and Martha Rogers, daughter of Daniel Rogers.[2][3] He was educated at Charterhouse School, and in 1715 became a pensioner of Jesus College, Cambridge,[1] where he became a Fellow in 1721. He was Rede lecturer at Cambridge in 1724,[4] and Boyle lecturer in 1749.[5] A churchman, he held various benefices, becoming in 1764 Archdeacon of London.[5]
Works
Jortin briefly (1731–2) established a magazine, Miscellaneous Observations upon Authors, Ancient and Modern, in which he wrote on Spenser and Milton.[2] In 1722, he published a small volume of Latin verse entitled Lusus poetici.[1] Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion (1746) was a work of Christian apologetics. His Remarks on Ecclesiastical History (5 vols, 1751‑73), has been labelled "the most significant Anglican ecclesiastical history of the eighteenth century"; written "from a markedly latitudinarian perspective", it was respected by Gibbon.[2]
Jortin mostly avoided controversy, though a dissertation on Virgil's treatment of the dead, by conflicting with Warburton's treatment, drew attack from Warburton's disciple Richard Hurd.[2] A two-volume Life of Erasmus (1758, 1760) drew upon Jean Le Clerc: "Jortin was in many ways a late representative of Christian humanism, as well as an active citizen in the protestant republic of letters".[2] Jortin published other miscellaneous pamphlets and tracts, and seven volumes of sermons appeared after his death. All his works showed learning, and were written in a lively style.
A collection of three volumes of his works was printed in 1805 and can be found at Internet Archive:
- Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion and Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Volume 1
- Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion and Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Volume 2
- Discourses Concerning the Truth of the Christian Religion and Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, Volume 3
References
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- Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
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- 18th-century English Anglican priests
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