Mombert, Jacob Isidor

D.D. (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1866), Episcopalian b. at Ca el, Germany, Nov. 6, 1829; received his first education in the schools there; spent several years in busine , which gave him opportunity of an early residence in England; there he pa ed through college, and after studies continued at Leipzig and Heidelberg, and extensive travels, took orders in the Church of England in 1857 was curate in Quebec, Canada, 1857-59; a istant (1859), and then rector of St. James's Church, Lancaster, Penn., 1860-69; American chaplain, Dresden, Saxony, 1869-75; since which time he has only partially e 275 xercised his ministry, having been engro ed with literary labors. Theologically he holds catholic and non-partisan ground, alike remote from the puerilities of mediaeval formalism, and the daring negations of the followers of Reu . His studies have ranged over many fields in theology, philology, philosophy, history, and art. He has written many scholarly articles in different religious periodicals; translated Tholuck's Commentary on the Psalms (London 1856, Philadelphia 1857), and the Commentary on the Catholic Epistles in the American Lange Series, New York, 1867; edited with prolegomena (containing a Life of Tyndale) and various collations, William Tyndale's Five Books of Moses (being a verbatim reprint, copied by his own hand, of the edition of 1530 in the Lenox Library, New York, and compared with Tyndale's Genesis of 1534, and the Pent a teuch in the Vulgate, Luther, and Matthew's Bible), New York [1884]; and is the author of the following independent works: Faith Victorious: Account of the Venerable Dr. Johann Ebel, Late Archdeacon of the Old Town Church of Konigsberg, in Pru ia, London and New York, 1882 Handbook of the English Version of the Bible, with Copious Examples illustrating the Ancestry and Relationship of the Several Versions, and Comparative Tables [1883]; Great Lives: A Course of History in Biographies, Boston, 1886, 2d ed. 1886.