John Snelling Popkin

John Snelling Popkin (born June 19, 1771 in Boston , † March 2, 1852 in Cambridge ) was an American classical philologist .

Life

His ancestors were of Welsh origin and came to America via Ireland. He was a son of the customs inspector John Popkin († 1827), who had served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Continental Army, and his wife Rebecca Snelling Popkin. John Snelling Popkin received his first education from the pastor of the Congregational Church in Malden . Then he attended Latin school in Boston. In 1788 he began studying at Harvard College , which he graduated from the top of his class in 1792 with an AB. He taught in Woburn and Cambridge and then worked as a Greek tutor at Harvard from 1795 to 1798.

After studying theology, Popkin was approved as a preacher by the Boston Association in 1798 and was ordained pastor of Federal Street Church in Boston from 1799 to 1802 . From 1804 to 1815 he preached in the First Parish Church in Newbury . He initially belonged to the Unitarian Church , then moved to the "Orthodox Congregational Society" and then to the Episcopal Church .

In 1808 Popkin became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1815 he received the Doctor of Divinity at Harvard and then taught as a college professor of Greek at Cambridge. In 1826 he succeeded Edward Everett , who had been elected to the US House of Representatives, and was second Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University. In 1833 he went into retirement. Popkin remained unmarried and lived in Cambridge until his death in 1852. He died of complications from heart disease.

Fonts (selection)

A Grammar of the Greek language, with an appendix. Originally composed for the College-School at Gloucester and now republished with additions . Cambridge 1828, OCLC 9864628 .
Three lectures on liberal education . Cambridge 1836, OCLC 37117994 .
A Memorial of the Rev. John Snelling Popkin, DD . Cambridge 1852.

Web links

dbcs.rutgers.edu

Literature by and about John Snelling Popkin in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b John Snelling Popkin. In: William B. Sprague: Annals of the American Pulpit. Carter, New York 1859-1861.
^ Popkin, John Snelling. In: Samuel Austin Allibone: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia 1859-1871.

personal data
SURNAME	Popkin, John Snelling
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boston
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1852
Place of death	Cambridge

[annals-1] A ^b John Snelling Popkin. In: William B. Sprague: Annals of the American Pulpit. Carter, New York 1859-1861.

[2] Popkin, John Snelling. In: Samuel Austin Allibone: A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia 1859-1871.