group's more extreme positions in the 1840s and did not publish in the Transcendental journal The Dial, despite his friendship with its editor Margaret Fuller, saying he did not want to be associated with the movement in print. In 1849 he preached a sermon, published as a pamphlet, on Joshua Young's ordination as pastor to his first parish, Boston's New North Church. He was noted as a public lecturer as well as a pulpit orator. In 1853-1854, he lectured on medieval history before the Lowell Institute. In 1858, Hedge returned to Harvard Divinity School as a professor of ecclesiastical history; that year, he also became editor of the Christian Examiner, a role he held for three years. The next year, Hedge began a four-year term as president of the American Unitarian Association. In 1872, he resigned his pastorship in Brookline to become professor of German literature at Harvard. He retained this position until 1881. Deeply read in philosophy, ecclesiastical history, and German literature, he ranked as perhaps the foremost German literary scholar in the United States. He died in Cambridge on August 21, 1890, and was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Works Besides essays on the different schools of philosophy, notably magazine articles on St. Augustine, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, and Coleridge, and other contributions to periodicals in prose and poetry, he published: The Prose Writers of Germany, extracts and biographical sketches (Philadelphia, 1848) A Christian Liturgy for the Use of the Church (Boston, 1856) Reason in Religion (Boston, 1865) The Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition (1870) Hours with German Classics (1886) '[https://archive.org/details/metricaltranslat00hedg/page/n5/mode/2up 'Metrical Translations and Poems] (with Annis Lee Wister; Boston, 1888) Martin Luther and Other Essays (1888) He also wrote hymns for the Unitarian church, and assisted in the compilation of a hymn-book (1853), and published numerous translations from the German poets, including Martin Luther's ("A Mighty Fortress is Our God"). Legacy His chief significance to American thought was his introduction of German scholarship and literature. References External links Biography in the Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography'' (uudb.org) Letters to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Papers of Frederic Henry Hedge at the Harvard Divinity School Library, Harvard Divinity School Reason in Religion (incomplete text)] at American Unitarian Conference 1805 births 1890 deaths Members of the Transcendental Club American Unitarians American Christian clergy 19th-century Christian clergy Harvard Divinity School alumni Harvard Divinity School faculty Harvard University faculty People from Bangor, Maine