About John Winthrop Platner
Lived 1865 – 1921 (aged 55–56). John Winthrop Platner was an American theologian.
John Winthrop Platner (1865–1921) was an American theologian.
Early life and education He was born in Lee, Massachusetts, on May 15, 1865. He graduated from Yale College in 1885. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1893. He studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
He married Clara Avery Burnham in 1915.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1915.
He died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 18, 1921.
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American theologian (1865–1921)
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