John Jortin
[2][3] He was educated at Charterhouse School, and in 1715 became a pensioner of Jesus College, Cambridge,[1] where he became a Fellow in 1721.[5] Jortin briefly (1731–2) established a magazine, Miscellaneous Observations upon Authors, Ancient and Modern, in which he wrote on Spenser and Milton.[2] In 1722 he published a small volume of Latin verse entitled Lusus poetici.[2] A two-volume Life of Erasmus (1758, 1760) drew upon Jean Le Clerc: "Jortin was in many ways a late representative of Christian humanism, as well as an active citizen in the protestant republic of letters".[2] Jortin published other miscellaneous pamphlets and tracts, and seven volumes of sermons appeared after his death.