a Lutheran divine, was born at Abbotstown, Pa., July 19, 1804. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1826, and studied theology at Gettysburg, Pa., and Princeton, N. J. He became pastor of a chlurch at Boonsboro, Md., in 1829, and was a teacher at Gettysburg, Pa., from 1830 to 1832. He was professor of Greek and belles-lettres in Pennsylvlania College, Gettysburg, from 1832 to 1850, when he became its president, a post which he held until his death, April 14, 1868.