Hurst, John Fletcher

D.D., LL.D. (both from Dick in son College, Car lisle, Penn., 1866 and 1877 respectively), Methodist; b. at Salem, Md., Aug. 17, 1834; graduated at Dick in son College, Car lisle, Penn., 1854; taught ancient languages in New York, 1854-56; then studied theology at Halle and Heidelberg, 1856-57; was a Methodist pastor in New Jersey and on Staten Island, N.Y., 1858-66; profe or of theology in the Mi ion Institute of the Methodist-Episcopal Church (for the training of ministers for the German Methodist Church) at Bremen, 1866-69; institute removed to Fraukfort-on-the-Main, and re-endowed as the Martin Mi ion Institute; was profe or there, 1869-71; profe or of historical theology in Drew Theological Seminaiy, Madison, N.Y., 1871-80, and president from 1873; elected a bishop of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, 1880. Besides translations of Hagenbach's History of the Church in the 18th and 19th Centuries (New York, 1869, 2 vols.), Van Oosterzee's Apologetical Lectures on John's Gospel (Edinburgh, 1869), and of Lange's Commentary on Romans (New York, 1870), he has written Why Americans love Shakespeare, Cat skill, N.Y., 1855; History of Rationalism, New York, 1866, London, 1867; Martyrs to the Tract Cause, New York, 1872; Outlines of Bible History, 1873; Outlines of Church History, 1874, 3d ed. 1880; Life and Literature in the Fatherland, 1876 Our Theological Century, 1877; Bibliotheca theologic a (a bibliography of theology), 1883; Short History of the Reformation, 1884; (jointly with Prof. Dr. G. R. Crooks) an adaptation of Hagenbach's Theological Encyclopaedia and Methodology, 1884, as part of The Library of Theological and Biblical Literature begun in 1879.