Henry Browne (scholar)

Early years

Career

Publications

• Ordo Sæculorum, a treatise on the chronology of Holy Scripture.' The argument is mainly on the same lines as Henry Fynes Clinton's. Contemporary knowledge of oriental archæology is brought to bear on biblical statements.
• Examination of the Ancient Egyptian Chronographies, begun in 1852 in Thomas Kerchever Arnold's Theological Critic.
• Remarks on Mr. Greswell's "Fasti Catholici". Negative criticism of the conclusions of Edward Greswell.
• He translated for the Library of the Fathers seventeen short treatises of Augustine of Hippo with Charles Lewis Cornish, and also Augustine's Homilies on the Gospel and First Epistle of St. John.
• Several volumes of Greek and Latin classics for Arnold's School and College Series.
• A translation of Johan Nicolai Madvig's Greek Syntax.
• A Handbook of Hebrew Antiquities.
• An English-Greek Lexicon, with Rädersdorf.
• Hierogrammata. The aim is to show that Egyptian discoveries do not invalidate the Mosaic account.
• He was also the author of several articles in the final edition of John Kitto's Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature.