Hodge, CHARLES

Hodge, CHARLES, an American theologian, was born in Philadelphia, 28th December 1797. He graduated at Princeton College in 1815, and in 1822 became a professor in the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he remained till the close of his life. He was founder and long the editor of the Princeton Review; and besides numerous essays, &c., he was the author of commen- taries on Romans, Corinthians, and Ephesians, of a history of the Presbyterian Church in America (1840), and of the well-known Systematic Theology (3 vols. 1871-72), now a standard work of the Calvinistic churches. In 1872 he was presented with a sum of $15,000, and a professorship bearing his name was founded in his honour. He died 19th June 1878. See Charles Hodge, by F. L. Patten (1889).—His son, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER (1823-86), succeeded his father at Princeton in 1878. He wrote Outlines of Theology (1860), works on the Atonement and the Confession of Faith, and a Life of his father (1880). His Popular Lectures were published in 1887.