Hedge, Frederic Henry (1805–1890)

US Unitarian clergyman and translator. He edited the Christian Examiner (1857–61) and taught at Harvard Divinity School (1857–76). His translation of Goethe's Faust appeared in 1882. Hedge was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1825 and was ordained in 1829. He held Unitarian pastorates in Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island (1829–72), and was a lifelong leader of the Unitarian movement.