Weidner, Revere Franklin

b. at Centre Valley, Lehigh County, Penn., Nov. 22, 1851; graduated at Muhlenberg College, Allen town, Penn., and at the Evangelical Luther an Theological Seminary at Philadelphia; pastor at Phillips burg, N.J., 1873-78; also profe or of English and history at Muhlenberg College, 1875-77; pastor at Philadelphia, 1878-82; and since 1882 profe or of dogmatics and exegesis at August an a Theological Seminary (Swedish Luther an), Philadelphia. He is a member of the American Philological A ociation, of the American Oriental Society, and of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis; author of a Commentary on Mark (Philadelphia, 1881), and of a Theological Encyclopaedia (Part I., Introduction, and exegetical Theology, Philadelphia, Penn.; 1885, Part II., Biblical theology of the Old Testament, Chicago, 1886), and a frequent contributor to reviews and the religious pre .