Hedge, Frederic Henry

D,D. (Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1852), Unitarian; b. at Cambridge, Ma ., Dec. 12, 1805; graduated at Harvard College, Cambridge, Ma ., 1825, and at its divinity school, 1828; became pastor at West Cambridge (now Arlington), 1829; at Bangor, Me., 1835; at Providence, R.I., 1850; and at Brook line, Ma ., 1856; retired, 1872. He was teacher of ecclesiastical history (1857-77), and profe or of German (1872-81), in Harvard University. "As a preacher he is connected with the Unitarian communion into which he was born, attached to it rather by the absence in that body of any compulsory creed, than by sympathy with its distinctive doctrine. His view of Christ is e entially that of the two natures, as defined by the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451)." He was for some years president of the American Unitarian A ociation. He is the author of Prose Writers of Germany, Philadelphia, 1848, 3d ed. 1871; Christian Liturgy for the Use of the Church, Boston, 1853; Reason in Religion, 1865, 2d ed. 1875 (repub., London); The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition, 1870; The Ways of the Spirit, and other E ays, 1877; Atheism in Philosophy, and other E ays, 1884; Hours with German Cla ics, 1886.