Alexander Viets Griswold Allen
Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (May 4, 1841 – July 1, 1908) was an American author, Episcopal clergyman and theologian.
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| Born | May 4, 1841 |
| Died | July 1, 1908 (aged 67) Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
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Biography
Allen was born in Otis, Massachusetts, on May 4, 1841,[1] to Ethan and Lydia Child Allen, née Burr.[2][3]
He graduated from Kenyon College in 1862 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1865.[1] He received the degree D.D. from Kenyon 1878, from Harvard, 1886, and from Yale, 1901.[1]
In 1872, he married Elizabeth Kent Stone; they remained together until her death in 1892.[2] The couple had two children; Henry Van Dyke and John Stone Allen.[3]
Career
Allen was a resident licentiate of Andover, Massachusetts, from 1865 to 1867, he also took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, being ordained a deacon, July 5, 1865, and priest, June 24, 1866.[1] He was rector of St. John's church, Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1865 to 1867, and professor of ecclesiastical history at the Episcopal theological school at Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1867.[1] He was elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.[1]
He died in Cambridge on July 1, 1908.[4]
Works
His publications include:[1]
- The Continuity of Christian Thought (Boston, 1884; eleventh edition, 1895)
- The Greek Theology and the Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century (1884, his Bohlen Lectures)
- Jonathan Edwards (1889)
- Memoir of Phillips Brooks (1891)
- Religious Progress (1894)
- Christian Institutions (New York, 1897)
- Life and Letters of Bishop Brooks (two volumes, 1900)
- Literature
- C. Slattery for his Life, (New York, 1911).
References
- Johnson 1906, p. 79
- ALLEN, Alexander Viets Griswold, in Who's Who in America (1901-1902 edition), via archive.org
- Rand, John Clark (1890). One of a Thousand: A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888-'89. First National Publishing Company. pp. 11–12.
- Wells, Charles L. (January 1911). "Memoir of Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, D.D." Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. XLIV: 362. Retrieved March 19, 2023 – via Internet Archive.
Attribtuion
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Johnson, Rossiter, ed. (1906). "Allen, Alexander Viets Griswold". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. Boston: American Biographical Society. p. 79.