Horatio Batch Hackett, an American Biblical scholar, born in Salisbury, Mass., Dec. 27,1808. He graduated at Amherst college in 1830, and studied theology at Andover, and afterward at Halle and Berlin. He spent a year as tutor at Amherst college, and four years as professor of ancient languages at Brown university, and in 1839 became professor of Biblical literature in the Newton theological institution. In 1851-'2 he travelled in Italy, Egypt, Palestine, and other countries. In 1858-'9 he resided several months in Athens, for the purpose of studying modern Greek, as auxiliary to the interpretation of the New Testament, and visited places in and near Greece possessing a Biblical interest. In 1869 he resigned his professorship at Newton, and in 1870 became professor of New Testament Greek in the Rochester theological' seminary, He has published Plutarch's Be Sera Numinis Vindicta, with notes (Andover, 1844); a translation of Winer's Chaldee grammar, with additions (1845); "Hebrew Grammar" and "Hebrew Reader" (1847); a "Commentary on the Acts" (Boston, 1851; new ed. greatly extended, 1858); " Illustrations of Scripture suggested by a Tour through the Holy Land" (1855); translation of the " Epistle to Philemon, with Notes" (1860); "Memorials of Christian Men in the War" (1864); translation of Van Oosterzee's "Commentary on Philemon," for Lange's "Commentary" (1868); and translation of Braune's "Commentary on Philippians," with additions, for Lange's "Commentary" (1870). He contributed to the English edition of Smith's " Dictionary of the Bible," and with Dr. Ezra Abbot edited the American edition.

He also edited the American edition of Rawlinson's "Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament," with notes and appendix (1873). He is one of the American revisers of the English Bible.