American clergyman and author and scholar of note, born at Cambridge, MA, on the 12th of December 1805; in charge of George Bancroft, he was educated in Germany. On his return to America he studied theology at the Cambridge Divinity School; became pastor of the Unitarian church at West Cambridge in 1829; in 1835, of a church at Bangor, ME; in 1850, after spending a year in Europe, pastor of the Westminster church at Providence, RI, from which he removed to Brookline, MA, in 1856. In 1858 he became lecturer on ecclesiastical history in Harvard College, and edited at the same time the Christian Examiner. In 1872 he assumed the professorship of the German language in the same college. Dr. Hedge published The Prose-Writers of Germany (1848); Reason in Religion (1865); The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition (1870); A Christian Liturgy for the Use of the Church, etc. He also wrote hymns for the Unitarian Church and published translations from the German poets. He died at Cambridge, MA, on the 21st of August 1890. See also “The Human Soul,” “The Human Soul” and “Questionings.”
