Brigcs, Charles August us

D.D. (University of Edinburgh, 1884), Presbyterian; b. in New- York City, Jan. 15, 1841; studied in the University of Virginia, 1857-60; in the Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1861-63; and in the University of Berlin, Germany, under Dorner and Rodiger, 1866-69. He inarched with the Seventh Regiment (N.Y.V.) to the defence of the capital. From 1863-66 he was in busine with his father, in New-York City. He was pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Roselle, N.J., 1870-74; and has been since 1874 profe or of Hebrew and the cognate languages in the Union The 37 ological Seminary, New-York City. Since 1880 he lias been a managing editor of the Presbyterian Review, of which he was a founder. Besides numerous articles in different periodicals,— notably those on biblical theology in the American Presbyterian Review, the earliest on the subject in America; and those on the higher criticism, in the Presbyterian Review, which beat the way for its study, — he has written Biblical Study; its Principles, Methods, and History, New York, 1883, 2d ed. 1885; American Presbyterianism; its Origin and Growth, 1885. He was one of the translators of the commentaries on the Psalms and Ezra, in the American Lange series.