Background
Hedge, Frederic Henry was born on December 12, 1805 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Levi and Mary (Kneeland) Hedge.
Hedge, Frederic Henry was born on December 12, 1805 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Levi and Mary (Kneeland) Hedge.
Graduated from Harvard, 1825, attended School Divinity, 1825-1829.
Memorized Virgil’s Eclogues before age of 7. Studied in Germany under George Bancroft, 1818-1822. Ordained to ministry Unitarian Church, 1829.
Minister several Unitarian churches
Established (with Ralph Waldo Emerson and George Ripley) Transcendental Club, 1836. Minister Westminster Congressional Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1850-1856.
Editor Christian Examiner, 1857-1861. Professor ecclesiastical history Harvard School Divinity, 1857-1876, professor German literature Harvard College, 1872-1884, specially appointed instructor ecclesiastical history, 1877-1878.
Leader Unitarian movement, president American Unitarian Association, 1859-1862.
Influential in American German studies. Author: Prose Writers of Germany, 1848. Ways of the Spirit and Other Essays, 1877.
Conservation and Reform, 1843.
Hymns for the Church of Christ. Recent Inquiries into Theology.
Reason in Religion, 1865. Hours with German Classics, 1886.
Personality and Theism, 1887.
Translator. Ein Feste Burg (Martin Luther), 1877.
Married Lucy Pierce, 1830.