John Nelson Darby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Nelson Darby

British theologian

Date of Birth: 18-Nov-1800

Place of Birth: Westminster, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Apr-1882

Profession: writer, pastor, translator, theologian, Bible translator

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

John Nelson Darby (18 November 1800 – 29 April 1882) was an Anglo-Irish Bible teacher, one of the influential figures among the original Plymouth Brethren and the founder of the Exclusive Brethren.
He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism.
Pre-tribulation rapture theology was popularized extensively in the 1830s by John Nelson Darby and the Plymouth Brethren, and further popularized in the United States in the early 20th century by the wide circulation of the Scofield Reference Bible.He produced translations of the Bible in German "Elberfelder Bibel", French "Pau" Bible, Dutch New Testament, and English (finished posthumously) based on the Hebrew and Greek texts called The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J.
N.
Darby.
It has furthermore been translated into other languages in whole or part.