Huidekoper, Frederic

Unitarian minister; b. at Meadville, Penn., April 7, 1817; entered Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma ., in 1834, but in 1835 was forced by his failing sight to abandon study, to which during the next four years he devoted ten minutes a day. From 1839 to 1841 he travelled in Europe, and then studied theology privately for two years. In 1844 he aided in organizing the Meadville Theological School, in which institution he had charge of the New-Testament department 1844-49, and of ecclesiastical history 1845-77, besides being for many years librarian, as also treasurer. His eyesight has since boyhood been diminishing; total blindne of one eye and approximate blindne of the other has since 1883 caused need of an attendant when in the street. The disease is painle , and the eyes apparently clear. He is the author of Christ's Mi ion to the Underworld, Boston, 1854, 5th ed., New York, 1883; Judaism at Rome, B.C. 76-A.B. 140, New York, 1876, 6th ed. 1885; Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuinene of the Gospels, 1878, 4th ed. 1883.