Jaeger, Abraham

D.D. (University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., 1880), Episcopalian; b. at Stan is law, Austria, March 25, 1839; educated at rabbinical schools, and was rabbi at Selma and Mobile, Ala., 1870-72. In the spring of 1872 he was converted from Judaism, and in May joined the Baptist Church, and studied Christian theology in the Southern Baptist Seminary, Greenville, S.C. (now at Louisville, Ky.), and was there honorary profe or 1875-76. In 1877 he joined the Episcopal Church; was ordered deacon, 1878; and ordained priest, 1880. From 1878 to 1880 he was profe or in the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.; and since has been profe or in the theological seminary of the Protestant-Episcopal diocese of Ohio, at Gambler. He is the author of Mind and Heart in Religion, or Judaism and Christianity, Chicago, 1873; Infant Baptism versus Converted Membership (announced); Modern Conception of the Development of the Religion of Israel (in preparation).