Hannah O'Brien Chaplin

{{Short description|American biblical scholar}}

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| birth_place = Danvers, Massachusetts, USA

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| spouse = Thomas Jefferson Conant

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Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant ({{nee}}, Chaplin; pen name, H. C. Conant; September 5, 1809 – February 18, 1865)"Hannah O'Brien Chaplin Conant." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Biography In Context. Web. 28 Feb. 2013. was an American biblical scholar.

Biography

Hannah O'Brien Chaplin was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, September 5, 1809. She was the daughter of clergyman Jeremiah Chaplin and Marcia S. O'Brien.{{Cite book |last=Scanlon |first=Jennifer |url=https://archive.org/details/americanwomenhis0000scan/page/45/ |title=American women historians, 1700s-1990s : a biographical dictionary |date=1996 |publisher=Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-4294-7636-2}} In 1830, she was married to Thomas Jefferson Conant,{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Conant, Thomas Jefferson|volume=6|page=822–823}} and in 1839 she became the editor of The Mother's Monthly Journal. She translated from the German Strauss' Baptism in Jordan, Neander's commentary on Philippians, and works by other authors. Her works are The Earnest Man, a biography of Adoniram Judson (1855), and a Popular History of English Bible Translation (1856). She was an able assistant in her husband's Hebrew studies.

Selected works

  • The earnest man : a sketch of the character and labors of Adoniram Judson, first missionary to Burmah (1855)
  • Popular History of English Bible Translation (1856)
  • The English Bible. History of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions (1856)
  • The popular history of the translation of the Holy Scriptures into the English tongue. With specimens of the old English versions (1880)

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