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Hedge, Frederic Henry (1805-1890)
Dr. Hedge was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 12, 1805. In 1818, he went with his tutor, George Bancroft (afterward the famous historian), to Germany, where he spent five years in German schools. Returning to America, he entered Harvard College, and graduated in the class of 1825. In 1829 he was settled as minister of the church in West Cambridge (now Arlington, Massachusetts). In 1835 he removed to Bangor, Maine, where he remained pastor of the Independent Congregational Society till 1850. His next settlement was in Providence, Rhode Island, over the Westminster Congregational Church; and this terminated in 1856. In that year he accepted a call to the First Parish of Brookline, Massachusetts This last and longest settlement extended till 1872, a period of sixteen years.
One reason for his removal from Providence to Brookline was that this latter place brought him near to Cambridge. He was thus enabled to accept an appointment as no
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- Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890: Christian Liturgy (page images at MOA)
- Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890: Hymns for the Church of Christ (page images at MOA)
- Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890: Reason in Religion (page images at MOA)
- Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890: Ways of the Spirit, and Other Essays (page images at MOA)
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- Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890: [Goethe's works] (S.E. Cassino, 1884), also by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Leopold Noa (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890: Atheism in philosophy, and other essays (Roberts Bros., 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890: Christian liturgy For the use of the church. (Crosby, Nichols,
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Frederic Henry Hedge
American Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist (1805-1890)
Frederic Henry Hedge (December 12, 1805 – August 21, 1890) was a New EnglandUnitarian minister and Transcendentalist. He was a founder of the Transcendental Club, originally called Hedge's Club,[1] and active in the development of Transcendentalism, although he distanced himself from the movement as it advanced.
He was also one of the foremost scholars of German literature in the United States.
Biography
[edit]Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hedge was the son of Harvard University professor of logic and metaphysics Levi Hedge. At the age of 12, he traveled to Germany and studied music for five years under the care of George Bancroft. He then entered Harvard as a junior and graduated in 1825.[2][3] His knowledge of German was to serve him well both in hymnody — he translated Luther's "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" ("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God") into the m