Hedge, Frederick

HENRY, D.D., Unitarian clergyman, was born in Cambridge, Ma ., Dec. 12, 1805; educated in Germany, under charge of George Bancroft, and at Harvard; studied theology at the Cambridge Divinity School; became pastor of the Unitarian Church in West Cambridge (1829), and subsequently held other charges; lectured in Harvard College on Church History, and became profe or of German there (1872). He acquired eminence as a author, and his Prose -writers of Germany is a standard. He also wrote: Reason in Religion; The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition; Hours with German Cla ics, .; edited the Christian Examiner (1857 to 1860); composed hymns; translated poems from the German, and, jointly with Mrs. Annie Lee Wister, published Metrical Translations and Poems. Died Aug. 21, 1890.