biography
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| (1819–93)
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| biography:
| Protestant theologian, born in Chur, Switzerland. He studied at several German universities and took a theological degree in Berlin (1841). In 1844 he accepted the chair of theology at the German Reformed seminary in Mercersburg, PA, and later became a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York (1870). An early ecumenicist, he foresaw the eventual unification of diverse Christian sects. He wrote or edited more than 80 works of theology and biblical scholarship, including The Creeds of Christendom (1877). |
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