Hedge, Rev. Frederic Henry, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 12, 1805—August 21, 1890, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Son of Professor Levi Hedge of Harvard, he was a very precocious child, ready to enter college at 12 years of age, but his father wisely sent him to Germany, with a tutor, George Bancroft, later a noted historian, where he studied in German schools for 5 years. He then returned to Harvard College, graduating in 1825, followed by a period of study in Harvard Divinity School, where he became an intimate friend of R. W. Emerson. He was ordained minister of the First Congregational Parish (Unitarian) in West Cambridge (now Arlington) Massachusetts in 1829. In 1835 he moved to Bangor, Maine, where he served the Independent Congregational Society until 1850, then serving the Westminster Congregational Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1850-1856. In the latter year he was called to the First Parish in Brookline, Massachusetts, which he served until 1872. His removal to Brookline enabled him to serve as a nonresident professor of ecclesiastical history in the Harvard Divinity School. He retired from the ministry in 1872 and moved to Cambridge, where he was appointed professor of German language and literature, retiring in 1882. He was a man of extraordinary intellectual ability, one of the most learned of his time, and a pioneer in bringing to this country an acquaintance with German literature and metaphysics. Harvard gave him the degree of D.D. in 1852, and that of LL.D. in 1886. He was one of the editors of the _Christian Examiner_, author of _The Prose Writers of Germany_, 1848, of _Reason in Religion_, 1865, of a volume of _Metrical Translations and Poems_ in 1888, and of a large number of essays and sermons. He was president of the American Unitarian Association 1860-1863. He collaborated with Dr. F. D. Huntington, _q.v._, in editing _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, Boston, 1853, to which he contributed three translations from the German: 1. _A mighty fortress is our God_, (Ein’ feste Burg) 2. _Christ hath arisen!_ (Goethe’s Faust) 3. _The sun is still forever sounding_ (Goethe’s Faust) The Unitarian _Hymn and Tune Book for Church and Home_, 1868, includes his translation from the Latin, 4. _Holy Spirit, Fire Divine_, (Veni, Sancte Spiritus) Translated 1862. His original hymns included in _Hymns for the Church of Christ_, 1853, are, 5. _Beneath thine hammer, Lord, I lie_, Undated but “Written at a time of severe trial and deep depression.” 6. _Sovereign and Transforming Grace_, Written for the ordination of H. D. Barlow at Lynn, Massachusetts, December 9, 1829. This fine hymn is appropriate to a service of worship and, with the omission of one stanza, has been widely used. 7. _’Twas in the East, the mystic East_, A Christmas hymn, written about 1853. 8. _’Twas the day when God’s anointed_,