Curtiss, Samuel Ives

Ph.D. (Leipzig, 1876), Lie. Theol. (hon., Berlin, 1878), D.D. (Iowa College, 1878, Amherst, 1881), Congregationalist b. at Union, Conn., Feb. 5, 1844; graduated at Amherst College, 1867, and at Union Theological Seminary, New-York City, 1870; was pastor of the Alexander Mi ion, King Street, New York, connected with the Fifth-avenue Presbyterian Church, 1870-72; and of the American Chapel, Leipzig, 1874-78. In 1872 he went to Germany, studied nine months in Bonn (1872-73), and then at Leipzig (1873-78), and received private instruction from Prof. Franz Delitzsch (four years) and Dr. J. H. R. Biesenthal. From 1878-79 he was New-England profe or of biblical literature in Chicago (Congregational) Theological Seminary, and since 1879 has been New-England profe or of Old-Testament literature and interpretation. He is the translator of Bickell's Outlines of Hebrew Gramma); Leipzig, 1877; and of Delitzsch's Me ianic Prophecies, Edinburgh, 1880, and Old-Testament History of Redemption, 1881; and author of The Name. Machabee, Leipzig, 1876 (his doctor's thesis); The Levitical Priests, Edinburgh, 1877; De Aaron i tic i sacerdotii atque thorce Elohisticaz origine, Leipzig, 1878 (his licentiate thesis); Ingersoll and Moses, Chicago, 1879; and of contributions to Current Discu ions in Theology, 1883 sqq. and in periodicals. He is a ociate editor of the Bibliotheca Sacra.