Editing Edwin Hatch

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{{Short description|English theologian (1835–1889)}}
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| birth_date  = 4 September 1835
| birth_place = [[Derby, England|Derby]], England
| death_date  = {{Death date and age|1889|11|10|1835|09|04|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Oxford, England|Oxford]], England
| nationality = English
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| occupation  = Professor, author
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| alma_mater  = [[King Edward's School, Birmingham]]<br />[[Pembroke College, Oxford|Pembroke College]]<br />[[Oxford University]]
| children    = 4, including [[Beatrice Hatch|Beatrice]], [[Evelyn Hatch|Evelyn]] and [[Ethel Hatch]]
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'''Edwin Warren Hatch''' (4 September 1835 [[Derby, England]] – 10 November 1889 [[Oxford, England]]) was an English [[theologian]]. He is best known as the author of the book ''[[Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church]]'', which was based on his 1888 [[Hibbert Lectures]] and which were edited and published following his death. He is also remembered as the composer of the hymn "[[Breathe on Me, Breath of God]]."

==Biography==
He was born in [[Derby]], the son of Samuel Hatch, a grocer and accountant, and his wife Charlotte Mooney; Walter Mooney Hatch was his brother.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=12589|first=H. C. G.|last=Matthew|title=Hatch, Edwin (1835–1889)}}</ref><ref>{{alox2|title=Hatch, Walter Mooney}}</ref> He attended [[King Edward's School, Birmingham]], where he studied under [[James Prince Lee]]; he was noted for his intellectual independence and study habits. He joined the [[Church of England]], baptised in 1852, having been raised a [[Nonconformist (Protestantism)|nonconformist]], under the influence of [[John Cale Miller]], rector of [[St Martin in the Bull Ring]].<ref name="ODNB"/>

Hatch matriculated at [[Pembroke College, Oxford]] in 1853, where he was a dominant figure in the [[Birmingham Set]]. He graduated B.A. in 1857, and M.A. in 1867.<ref name="alox">{{alox2|title=Hatch, Edwin}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Hare|first=Humphrey|year=1949|title=Swinburne: a biographical approach|location=London|publisher=H. F. & G. Witherby|page=38|oclc=361619|url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=60DqTbnaFsap8QPJ64SkAQ|accessdate=2011-06-04}}</ref>

In 1858, Hatch won the Ellerton Prize. That year, he was ordained deacon, and worked in London's [[East End]]. In 1859, he was ordained as an Anglican priest.<ref name="ODNB"/> He moved to [[Toronto]], [[Canada West]], where he was professor of classics at [[University of Trinity College|Trinity College]] until 1862. Between then and his return to [[Oxford, England]], in 1867, he served as rector of the High School of Quebec and professor of Classics at [[Morrin College]], both in [[Quebec City]]. He was vice-principal of [[St Mary Hall]] from 1867 until 1885.<ref name="alox"/> In 1884 he was appointed university reader in [[ecclesiastical]] history.

Hatch was a [[Bampton Lectures|Bampton lecturer]] in 1880. He served as a [[Grinfield Lectures|Grinfield lecturer]] from 1880 to 1884, during which time he presented his concordance on the [[Septuagint]].

==Works==
*''[https://archive.org/details/organizationear03hatcgoog The organization of the early Christian churches]'' (1881) – the Bampton lectures of 1880; translated into German by [[Adolf von Harnack]] (Giessen, 1883)
*{{Cite EB9|wstitle=Paul (Apostle)|display=Paul|volume=18}}
*''The Growth of Church Institutions'' (1887)
*[https://archive.org/details/essaysinbiblical00hatcrich ''Essays in Biblical Greek''] (1889)
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001409689 ''A Concordance to the Septuagint and the Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament (including the Apocryphal books)''] by Edwin Hatch and Henry A. Redpath, assisted by many scholars (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897)
*''Towards Fields of Light: Sacred Poems'' (1890)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hatch |first1=Edwin |title=Towards Fields of Light: Sacred Poems |date=1890 |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=CnVNAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}</ref>
*''The God of Hope'' (1890)
*''Memorials of Edwin Hatch'' (1890) including papers and sermons, edited by his brother Samuel C. Hatch<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hatch |first1=Edwin |title=Memorials of Edwin Hatch|date=1890 |publisher=London, Hodder |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialsofedwin00hatcuoft}}</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/influenceofgreek00hatc ''The influence of Greek ideas and usages upon the Christian church''] (the “Hibbert Lectures,” edited by [[Andrew Martin Fairbairn]], 1897)

In 1873, Hatch edited ''The student's handbook to the University and colleges of Oxford'', which appeared in several revised editions during and after his time at the university.  He wrote a small number of hymns, collected in the posthumous ''Towards Fields of Light'' . One that is noted is ''Breathe on me, Breath of God''. It appeared in the ''Congregational Psalmist Hymnal'' (1886) edited by [[Henry Allon]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Julian|title=A Dictionary of Hymnology|volume=2|page=1569|year=1907|publisher=John Murray}}</ref> ''I dared not hope that thou wouldst deign'' was included in Garrett Horder's ''Hymns: Supplemental to Existing Collections" (1894).<ref>{{cite web |title=I dared not hope that thou wouldst deign |url=https://hymnary.org/text/i_dared_not_hope_that_thou_wouldst_deign |website=Hymnary.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=John Julian|title=A Dictionary of Hymnology|volume=2|page=1653|year=1907|publisher=John Murray}}</ref>

==Family==
Hatch and his wife Evelyn had four children:  Arthur Herbert Hatch (b. 1864), [[Beatrice Hatch]] (b. 1866), [[Ethel Hatch]] (b. 1869), and [[Evelyn Hatch]] (b. 1871).

== Notes ==
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== Further reading ==
*{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Hatch, Edwin}}
*''Memorials of Edwin Hatch: sometime reader in ecclesiastical history in the University of Oxford, and rector of Purleigh'', edited by his brother (Samuel C. Hatch). London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1890.
* ''Aspects of Edwin Hatch'', by Peter Colin Carlsson. Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Southampton, Dept. of Theology, 1974.
*{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Hatch, Edwin|year=1905}} This work in turn cites an article by Harnack in the ''Theologische Litteratur Zeitung'' (1890)

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