Dalton, Hermann

D.D. (hon., Marburg, 1883), German Reformed; b. at Offenbach, near Frankfurt-am-Main, Aug. 20, 1833 (his father was an English man); studied at the universities of Marburg, Berlin, and Heidelberg, 1853-56; has been since 1858 pastor of the German Reformed Church in St. Petersburg, Ru ia, and member of the ecclesiastical council of the Reformed Church in Ru ia; since 1876 founder and chairman of the evangelical city mi ion. He has published, besides minor works, Nathanael, Vortrage iiber das Christ ent hum, St. Petersburg, 1861, 3d ed. 1886; Geschichte der reformirten Kirche in Ru land, Gotha, 1865; Das Gebet des Herrn in den Sprachen Ru lands, Linguist is che Studie mit Text in 108 Sprachen, St. Petersburg, 1870; Immanuel, Der Heidelberger Katechismus als Bekenntni u. Erbauungsbuch, der evangel. Gemeinde erkldrt und ans Herz gelegt, Wiesbaden, 1870, 2d ed. 1883 (translated into Dutch); Reisebilder aus dem Orient, St. Petersburg, 1871; Die evangelisclie Bewegung in Spanien, Wiesbaden, 1872 (translated into Dutch); Johannes Go ner, Berlin, 1874, 2d ed. 187S (translated into Dutch); Reisebilder aus London und Holland, Wiesbaden, J875; Johannes von Muralt, 1876; Die evangel is chen Stromungen in der ru ischen Kirche der Gegenwart, Heilbronn, 1881 (translated into Dutch, French, and English); Johannes a Lasco, Gotha, 1881 (translated into Dutch and English); Reisebilder aus Griechenland und Klein a sien, Randzeichnungen zu einigen Stellen des Neuen Test a men les, Bremen, 1884; Ferienreise eines evangel is chen Predigers, 1885 (with an account of the Belfast Council of the Reformed Churches, and the Copenhagen Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, 1884, which the author attended as a delegate). Besides these may be mentioned his edifying and devotional writings which are all published in Basel, and have been widely circulated: Der verlorne Sohn, Die Familie (1865, 2d ed. 1870), Die sieben Worte am Kreuze (1871), Bethanien (1875), Die Heilung des Blindgebornen (1882).