FAFNIR

(Norse myth.), guardian | of the Nibelung hoard; slain by Sigurd the Volsung. (1854-1923), Theologian; b. in New York] Educated at Columbia College and the College of the City of New York. At Columbia College in 1875 Bachelor of Laws. In 1882 graduated from Union Theological Seminary and Doctor of Divinity 1898 of Western Reserve College. From 1873-1879 taught in public schools of New York. In 1882 Ordained Presbyterian Minister. From 1882-1885 was chapel minister of Grace Mi ion of Chicago. In Yonkers, New York, from 1885-1886 was pastor of Westminster Church. In 1891 was appointed to instruct in Harvard — Divinity School but on account of ill health could not teach, A ociate Profe or of Old Testament, languages and literature from 1892-1899, and also instructed Hebrew. Profe or of Old Testament Literature from 1899-1915 and since 1915 at the Union Theological Seminary. Author of A Primer of Hebrew, in 1903. critic and literary historian; prof. at Sorbonne; member of Academy (1900); pub. studies of great Fr. writers 16th to 19th cent., also a history of Fr. literature.