Gardiner, Frederic

D.D. (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1869), Episcopalian; b. at Gardiner, Me., Sept. 11, 1822; graduated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1842; was rector of Trinity Church, Saco, Me., 1845-47; a istant minister, St. Luke's, Philadelphia, Penn., 1847-48; rector of Grace Church, Bath, Me., 1848-53;. and of Trinity Church, Lewiston, Me., 1855-56. In 1865 he became profe or of the literature and interpretation of Scripture in Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, Gambier, O.; in 1867, a istant rector at Middle town, Conn.; and the next year a profe or in the Berkeley (Episcopalian) Divinity School there (1868-82 of Old Testament and literature, and since 1883 of New-Testament literature and interpretation). He is the author of The Island of Life, an Allegory, Boston, 1851 Commentary on the Epistle of St. Jude, 1856; Harmony of the Gospels in Greek, And over, 1871, 7th ed. 1884; Harmony of the Gospels in English, 1871, 3d ed. subsequently; Diale aron, The Life of our Lord in the Words of the Gospels, 1871, 2d ed. subsequently; The Principles of Textual Criticism, 1876; The Old and New Testaments in their Mutual Relations, New York, 1885. He wrote the commentary on Levitic us (incorporating that of Lange) in the American Lange series, New York, 1876; and that upon Second Samuel (1883) and Ezekiel (1884) in Bishop Ellicott's Old-Testament Commentary for English Readers, London and New York.