Frederic henry hedge biography of donald

Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-90) was one of the key figures in the establishment of the Transcendental Club.

He was born into a distinguished, well-educated New England family of ministers and academics, his father Levi Hedge, was Harvard College’s first professor of philosophy, teaching there from 1792 to 1832.

Frederic Henry Hedge was born in Cambridge, on 12 December 1805.

Frederic Henry Hedge was born in Cambridge, on 12 December 1805.

Hedge appears to represent that condition of Unitarian thinking which prefers a rational to a traditional ground of authority in matters pertaining to the.

Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890 · Unitarians -- United States -- 19th century -- Biography.

This book is a captivating analysis of life's three dominant philosophies, each representing a different view on the meaning and purpose of human existence.

He maintains, as a writer of travels, the same rank which distinguishes him in every species of composition.

At the age of twelve Hedge passed Harvard’s entrance exam but his father decided to send him, with a learned guardian named George Bancroft, to Germany to gain a more complete education before he entered Harvard.

After some budgetary difficulties, and some behavioural difficulties that possibly arose from Hedge's having been individually privately tutored previously, Hedge found his feet at an highly regarded school, Schulpforte, in Saxony.

where he began to develop a mastery of the German language and literature, including Goethe and the German idealists.

Returning to the U.S. Hedge graduated first in his class from the Harvard Divinity School