Jonathan Edwards Ryland (5 May 1798 – 16 April 1866) was an English man of letters and tutor.

Life

The only son of John Ryland (1753–1825), by his second wife, he was born at

Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...

on 5 May 1798. His early years were spent in

Bristol Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city i ...

, and he was educated at the Baptist college, over which his father presided, and at the

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, where he was a pupil of Dr Thomas Brown. For a time he was mathematical and classical tutor at Mill Hill College, and for a short period he taught at Bradford College. He later moved to Bristol, and in 1835 went to Northampton, where he remained for the rest of his life. The degree of MA was in 1852 conferred upon him by

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. He died at Waterloo, Northampton, on 16 April 1866. On 4 January 1828 he had married Frances, daughter of John Buxton of Northampton.

Works

Ryland mostly edited and translated the works of others. His earliest compositions were inserted in ''The Visitor'' (Bristol, 1823); he was a writer in the '' Baptist Magazine'', and he edited vols. ix.–xii. of the fifth series of the '' Eclectic Review''. He wrote for

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's ''Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature'', and he published in 1856 a "Memoir" of Kitto. In 1864 he produced ''Wholesome Words; or One Hundred Choice Passages from Old Authors''. To the eighth edition of the ''

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'' he contributed memoirs of John Foster,

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, Kitto, Robert Robinson,

Schleiermacher Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (; 21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional P ...

, and Schwartz, and the articles "Northampton" and "Northamptonshire". Translations by Ryland included

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's ''Thoughts on Religion'',

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on the ''General Epistle of St. James'',

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's ''Dialogues on Sin and Salvation'', Ernst Sartorius's ''Lectures on Christ'',

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's ''Life of Justin Martyr'', François Gaussen's ''Canon of the Holy Scriptures'', August Tholuck's ''Guido and Julius'' and ''Old Testament and the New'',

Christian Gottlob Barth Christian Gottlob Barth (31 July 1799 – 12 November 1862) was a German Protestant minister, writer and publisher. He founded the publishing house Calwer Verlag in 1833. A representative of pietism in Württemberg, he is regarded as one of the f ...

's ''Weaver of Quelbrunn'',

Johann Peter Lange Johann Peter Lange (; 10 April 1802 in Sonnborn (now a part of Wuppertal) – 9 July 1884, Bonn), was a German Calvinist theologian of peasant origin. Biography He was born at Sonnborn near Elberfeld, and studied theology at Bonn (from 1822) ...

's ''Life of Christ'' (vol. ii.), two treatises by

Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Herrmann Hengstenberg (20 October 1802, in Fröndenberg28 May 1869, in Berlin), was a German Lutheran churchman and neo-Lutheran theologian from an old and important Dortmund family. He was born at Fröndenberg, a Westphal ...

, and several volumes by Augustus Neander on the ''History of the Church and its Dogmas''. Ryland edited the ''Pastoral Memorials'' of his father (1826–8), and the ''Life and Correspondence of John Foster'' (1846, 2 vols.) He also edited collections of Foster's ''Essays'' and ''Lectures''.

References

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