Dr. Olive Wyon (7 March 1881 - 21 August 1966) was a British author and translator of books of the Christian faith.

Life

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Wyon was born in Hampstead, London, into a cultured Victorian family. The daughter of Allan Wyon, Chief Engraver of Seals to Queen Victoria, she had a brother, the Rev. Allan G. Wyon, the sculptor and medalist, and two sisters, one an Anglican Deaconess and the other a Congregational Minister.

She a member of the faculty of St. Colm's College, Edinburgh and was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Aberdeen for her contribution to theological learning.

She died in Edinburgh in 1966, aged 85.

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Books by Olive Wyon

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Translations by Olive Wyon

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She translated the works of theologians Emil Brunner,[1] Adolf von Harnack, Maurice Goguel, Friedrich Heiler, Ernst Robert Curtius, Hanns Lilje, Nils Ehrenström, Jacques Ellul, Ernst Troeltsch, Basilea Schlink, Paul Seippel, Suzanne de Dietrich, Helmut Gollwitzer, and Léopold Malevez.

Her translations included:

References

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  1. ^ J. Robert Nelson, "Emil Brunner - Teacher Unsurpassed", Theology Today, Vol 19, No. 3, 1963. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
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