Henry Julian White (27 August 1859 – 16 July 1934) was an English biblical scholar.[1]
White was born in Islington, north London,[2] the second son of Henry John White. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 11 October 1878, graduating B.A. in 1882 (M.A. 1885).[3] He was ordained in 1886, becoming the domestic chaplain of John Wordsworth in the same year. He was Chaplain and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, where he taught theology, from 1895 to 1905;[4] and a Fellow of King's College London from 1905 to 1920. He assisted Wordsworth in producing an edition of the Vulgate Bible. He was also co-author of A Grammar of the Vulgate. He was Dean of Christ Church in Oxford from 1920 to 1934.
White supported the appointment of Albert Einstein as a Student (Fellow) at Christ Church, despite opposition by J. G. C. Anderson on nationalistic and perhaps even xenophobic (according to White) grounds in the early 1930s.[5]
- ^ Henry Julian White, listed in L. Fuerbringer, Christian Cyclopedia. St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1927.
- ^ "White, Henry Julian". Who's Who: 2134. 1913.
- ^ Foster, Joseph. "White, Henry Julian". Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886.
- ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 4.
- ^ "Albert Einstein". Oxford Chabad Society. Retrieved 1 January 2016.