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Horatio Balch Hackett was born on 27, December in 1808, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, United States.
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Horatio Hackett
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Horatio was educated at Phillips Academy and at Amherst College, where he graduated as valedictorian in 1830, and at Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1834.
Career
Horatio was an adjunct professor of Latin and Greek Languages and Literature at Brown University in 1835-1838 and professor of Hebrew Literature there in 1838-1839. He traveled in Egypt and Palestine in 1852, and in 1858-1859 in Greece, becoming proficient in modern Greek. From 1870 until his death in Rochester, New York, he was a professor of Biblical literature and New Testament exegesis in the Rochester Theological Seminary.
He was a great teacher but a greater critical and exegetical scholar. Horatio B. Hackett Elementary Public School in Philadelphia is named after him. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, educated (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed). Cambridge University Press.
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Born
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United States
Education
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1830
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1834
Career
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1835 - 1838
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1838 - 1839
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1870 - 1875