Name John Gwynn | ||
John Gwynn (1827 in Larne–April 1917) was an Irish Syriacist. He was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Dublin from 1888. His children included Lucy Gwynn first lady registrar of Trinity College in February 1905, Stephen Gwynn, and Edward Gwynn, Provost 3 October 1927.
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Syriac
Gwynn produced editions of the five books missing from the traditional canon of the New Testament of the Aramaic New Testament of the Peshitta: 2 John, 3 John, 2 Peter, Jude in 1893, and Revelation in 1897. He worked from 20 manuscripts for the epistles, but had to rely on only one, the Crawford Aramaic New Testament manuscript, for Revelation. These were later added to the Gospels and Epistles of Philip E. Pusey and George Gwilliam to produce the 1905 United Bible Societies standard edition of the Syriac Peshitta.
Gaelic revival
Both he and his son Edward John Gwynn were very interested in the Irish language and the Gaelic revival. He spent 20 years preparing the manuscript of The Book of Armagh: Liber Ardmachanus for publication (1903).