Henry Tattam
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Henry Tattam (December 28, 1788 – January 8, 1868, Stanford Rivers, Essex) was a Church of England clergyman and Coptic scholar.
Tattam was Rector of St Cuthbert's Bedford, 1822-1849, and from 1831 to 1849 also Rector of Great Woolstone, Buckinghamshire.[1] He was Archdeacon of Bedford from 1845 to 1866, Rector of Stanford Rivers, Essex from 1849, and a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen from 1853.[2] Tattam was the author of various theological and philological works, including several editions and translations of Coptic texts. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835. Tattam visited Egypt and the Holy Land in 1838-9, meeting the patriarch and acquiring Coptic and Syriac manuscripts for the British Library. He received honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Göttingen and the University of Leiden.[3]
[edit] Works
- Helps for Devotion, 1825
- Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language, 1830
- A Defence of the Church of England Against the Attacks of a Roman Catholic Priest, 1843
[edit] References
- ^ Alllibone, S. A. A critical dictionary of English literature, p. 2337
- ^ Boase, F., Modern English biography, 1898-1921
- ^ Thompson Cooper, ‘Tattam, Henry (1788–1868)’, rev. Chris Pickford, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
[edit] External links
- Works by or about Henry Tattam in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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