This short-lived classical journal (1831 3), edited by Julius Charles Hare (1795 1855) and Connop Newell Thirlwall (1797 1875), both fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, disseminated the new comparative philology. Developed primarily in Germany both editors were fluent German speakers this approach critiqued biblical and classical texts and was associated with a liberal Christianity which brought the editors into conflict with the university's religious conservatism. Hare left Cambridge in 1832 to take up the family living in Herstmonceaux, Sussex, while Thirlwall was dismissed in 1834 for...

This short-lived classical journal (1831 3), edited by Julius Charles Hare (1795 1855) and Connop Newell Thirlwall (1797 1875), both fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, disseminated the new comparative philology. Developed primarily in Germany both editors were fluent German speakers this approach critiqued biblical and classical texts and was associated with a liberal Christianity which brought the editors into conflict with the university's religious conservatism. Hare left Cambridge in 1832 to take up the family living in Herstmonceaux, Sussex, while Thirlwall was dismissed in 1834 for...