Charles Hodge

Background

Charles Hodge was born on December 27, 1797 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Charles Hodge's father, Hugh, was the son of a Scotsman who emigrated from Northern Ireland early in the eighteenth century.

Education

Charles graduated from the College of Newjersey (now Princeton) in 1815, and in 1819 at the Princeton Theological seminary, where he became an instructor in 1820, and the first professor of Oriental and Biblical literature in 1822.

From 1826 to 1828 he studied under de Sacy in Paris, under Gesenius and Tholuck in Halle, and under Hengstenberg, Neander and Humboldt in Berlin.

Career

In 1825 Charles established the quarterly Biblical Repertory, the title of which was changed to Biblical Repertory And Theological Review in 1830 and to Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review in 1837.

With it, in 1840, was merged the Literary ani Theological Review of New York, and in 1872 the American Presbyterian Review of New York, the title becoming Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review in 1872 and Princeton Review in 1877. His mere important essays were republished under the titles Essays and Review.

Achievements

• In 1824, Hodge helped to found the Chi Phi Society along with Robert Baird and Archibald Alexander.
  
  He founded the quarterly Biblical Repertory in 1825 to translate the current scholarly literature on the Bible from Europe.
  
  Charles Hodge was listed as a noteworthy clergyman, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • What is Darwinism?

    (This collection of literature attempts to compile many of...)

  • Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans

    (Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans was first publish...)

  • Charles Hodge: The Way of Life

    (A new edition of The Way of Life and excerpts from other ...)

  • Teología sistemática
  • Systematic Theology Volume II Anthropology
  • The Way of Life

Religion

Hodge was a leader of the Old School faction of Presbyterians during the division of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in 1837.

Connections

Hodge was married to Sarah Bache, Benjamin Franklin's great-granddaughter in the same year.

His second wife, whom he married in 1852 was Mary Hunter Stockman.

Father:

Hugh Hodge

Mother:

Mary Blanchard

late wife:

Sarah Bache

(married 1822; died 1849)

Wife:

Mary Hunter Stockman

colleague:

Lyman H. Atwater

References

• Charles Hodge (Bitesize Biographies)
• Charles & A. A. Hodge:
• Charles Hodge (Bitesize Biographies) by Don Fortson (2013-05-17)
• The Life of Charles Hodge ...: Professor in the Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J.
• Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy
• Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton (American Reformed Biographies)