Samuel Hulbeart Turner

Samuel Hulbeart Turner (1790-1861) graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1807 and shortly thereafter became an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church in America in 1814. After serving five years in Chestertown, Maryland, he returned to Philadelphia for a year as a superintendent in a theological school before being appointed professor of Historic Theology at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in 1819. After a year in New Haven, Connecticut, the seminary relocated to New York City in 1821, with Turner now serving as professor of Biblical Learning and Interpretation of Holy Scriptures, a position he held until his death in 1861. Among his numerous published writings are a translation of Johann Jahn’s An Introduction to the Old Testament (1827); The Claims of the Hebrew Language and Literature (1831); A Companion to the Book of Genesis (1846); and Thoughts on the Origin, Character, and Interpretation of Scriptural Prophecy in Seven Discourses (1851).