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Krauth, Charles Philip

clergyman, college president, was born May 7, 1797, in Montgomery county, Pa. In 1833 he was elected professor of biblical and oriental literature in the theological seminary at Gettysburg, Pa., and the following year he was unanimously elected president of Pennsylvania college, at the same place. He died May 30, 1867, in Gettysburg, Pa.

KRAUTH, CHARLES PORTERFIELD, clergyman, educator, author, was born March 17, 1823, in Martinsburg, Va. He was a prominent lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, and professor of moral science in the university of Pennsylvania in 1868-83. He was the author of The Conservative Reformation and its Theology; The Evangélical Mass and the Romish Mass; Sketch of the Thirty Years' War; Christian Liberty; Infant Baptism and Salvation in the Calvinistic System; and Chronicle of the Augsburg Confession. He died Jan. 2, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.