Background
Owen was born in 1716 near Dolgellau, Merionethshire (Gwynedd), and died on 14 October 1795 at Edmonton.
Owen was born in 1716 near Dolgellau, Merionethshire (Gwynedd), and died on 14 October 1795 at Edmonton.
Jesus College.
Perhaps his most significant contribution to biblical scholarship is his discussion of the date of publication and the form and manner of the composition of the four canonical gospel accounts. lieutenant is arguable whether his thoughts on the subject contributed to the development of Johann Jakob Griesbach"s Synoptic Gospel hypothesis. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1736, where he took his degrees in arts (Bachelor 1739, Master of Arts 1743), while also devoting himself to mathematical studies, before concentrating on medical studies (Bachelor of Medicine 1746, Doctor of Medicine 1753).
Contemporaries acknowledged his learning.
And from 1769 to 1771 he was Boyle Lecturer. Whilst neither of them seems to mention a meeting in their writings, it is conceivable that Owen had been personally known to J. J. Griesbach.
Foreign the latter had visited England upon completion of his undergraduate studies. And, according to an extant list of books, his estate contained a copy of Owen"s seminal work, Observations on the Four Gospels, tending chiefly to ascertain the time of their Publication, and to illustrate the form and manner of their Composition (1764).
Among Owen"s other publications are:
Harmonia Trigonometrica, or A short treatise on Trigonometry (1748);
The Intent and Propriety of the Scripture Miracles considered and explained (1755);
An Enquiry into the present State of the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament (1769);
Critica Sacra, or a short Introduction to Hebrew Criticism (1777);
Collatio codicis Cottoniani Geneseos cum editione Romana a Joanne Ernesto Grabe jam olim facta nunc demum summa cura edita ab Henrico Owen, Doctor of Medicine The Modes of Quotation used by the Evangelical Writers, explained and vindicated (1789).
Royal Society.