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Hedge, Frederic Henry

educator, author, poet, was born Dec. 12, 1805, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, and professor of German language and literature at Harvard university in 1872-81. He was the author of Reason in Religion; The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition; A Christian Liturgy; Prose Writers of Germany; Ways of the Spirit and Other Essays; Atheism in Philosophy; Sermons; Hours with Martin Luther and German Classics; Other Essays; and Metrical Translations and Poems. He died Aug. 21, 1890, in Cambridge, Mass.