ty-eight years longer served the church in that office. Bishop Heading's episcopal life covered a large space in the formative period of American Methodism, and probably no other man contributed more largely than he to the form into which it grew, or more effectively sustained its original evangelistic spirit and methods. During most of the years of his episcopate he lived at Lynn. Mass., but in 1851 he removed to Poughkeepsie. He had been released by the general conference of 1848 from all obligation to labor any longer, and from that time onward his strength rapidly declined. His annual salary during his later years was $700, and when it was proposed to make it larger he earnestly objected, saying he should not know what to do with more. Bishop Hedding was an able theologian in respect to the great and funda- mental elements of Christian truth and doctrine, a preacher of great force and convincing eloquence, dignified yet pleasant in his manners, and in private life happily blending seriousness and cheerfulness.
HEDGE, Levi, educator, b. in Hardwick, Mass.,
19 April, 1766; d. in Cambridge, Mass., 3 Jan.,
1844. He was graduated at Harvard in 1792,
appointed a tutor in 1795, and in 1810 became
professor of logic and metaphysics. In 1827 he
exchanged that post for the Alford professorship of
natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity,
but was compelled by an attack of paralysis to
resign in 1830. He published a “System of Logic”
(Boston, 1818), which went through many editions,
and was translated into German. He also
prepared an abridgment of Brown's “Mental Philosophy”
(1827). — His son, Frederic Henry,
educator, b. in Cambridge, Mass., 12 Dec., 1805; d.
there, 21 Aug., 1890, was sent to school in
Germany at the age of twelve, and remained five years.
On his return he entered the junior class at
Harvard, and was graduated in 1825. He then studied
theology at the Cambridge divinity-school,
was ordained in 1829, and settled over the Unitarian
church in West Cambridge. In 1835 he took
charge of a church in Bangor, Me.; in 1850, after
spending a year in Europe, became pastor of the
Westminster church in Providence, R. I., and in
1856 of the church in Brookline, Mass. In 1857
he was made professor of ecclesiastical history in
the divinity-school at Harvard, still retaining his
pastoral charge, but resigned the pastorship in
1872 in order to assume the professorship of the
German language in the college. He was noted as
a public lecturer as well as a pulpit orator. In
1853-'4 he lectured on mediæval history before
the Lowell institute. He became editor of the
“Christian Examiner” in 1858. Besides essays on
the different schools of philosophy, notably
magazine articles on St. Augustine, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer,
and Coleridge, and other contributions to
periodicals in prose and poetry, he published “The
Prose Writers of Germany,” containing extracts
and biographical sketches (Philadelphia, 1848);
“A Christian Liturgy for the Use of the Church”
(Boston, 1856); “Reason in Religion” (Boston,
1865); and “The Primeval World of Hebrew
Tradition” (1870). 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.
HEFLIN, Robert Stell, lawyer, b. in Morgan
county, Ga., 15 April, 1815. He was educated at
Fayetteville, Ga., where his parents settled in 1832,
was clerk of the county court in 1836-'9, admitted
to the bar in 1840, and practised in Fayetteville
and Wedowee. He was a member of the Georgia
senate in 1840-'1, of the house of representatives
in 1846 and 1849, and of the senate in 1857 and
1860. As an uncompromising Union man he was
compelled to pass through the lines to Sherman's
army in August, 1864. He was appointed judge
of probate in 1865, and elected to that office in
1866, was a presidential elector in 1868, and was
then elected to congress as a Republican, serving
from 7 Dec., 1869, to 3 March, 1871.
HEG, Hans C., soldier, b. in Norway in 1829;
killed in the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., 19 Sept.,
1863. He was brought by his father to the United
States when eleven years of age, and settled in
Wisconsin. He went to California during the gold
excitement in 1849, returned in 1851, established
himself as a farmer and merchant near Milwaukee,
and was elected commissioner of state-prisons in
1859. In 1861 he entered the volunteer army as a
major, and was commissioned colonel of the 15th
Wisconsin infantry, a Scandinavian regiment, on
30 Sept., 1861. His regiment took part in the
reduction of Island No. 10, and afterward in the
surprise and capture of Union City, Tenn.; also
in the battle of Chaplin Hills, in the pursuit
of Gen. Bragg's forces, and the contests at Stone
River and Murfreesboro. On 29 April he was
placed in command of a brigade, and took part in
the movements of the 20 corps, resulting in the
evacuation of Shelbyville, Tullahoma, and Chattanooga,
and at Chickamauga, where he fell at the
head of his forces on the second day of the fight.
HEHL, Matthew, Moravian bishop, b. in Ebersbach,
Würtemberg, 30 April, 1705; d. in Lititz,
Pa., 4 Dec., 1787. He was graduated at the
University of Tübingen, and after being consecrated
to the episcopacy, 24 Sept., 1751, in London, came
to this country as assistant of Bishop Spangenberg
(q. v.). His first seat was at Bethlehem, Pa.,
where he superintended the neighboring country
churches and the educational institutions of the
Moravians. In 1756 he transferred his residence
to Lititz, Lancaster co., Pa., and for twenty-eight
years had the oversight of the churches of that
vicinity, as also of those in Maryland, retaining
his seat in the governing board at Bethlehem.
Hehl was a learned divine, an eloquent preacher,
and wrote numerous hymns.
HEILPRIN, Phineas Mendel, scholar, b. in Lublin, Russian Poland, in November, 1801; d. in Washington, D. C., 30 Jan., 1863. He early settled in Piotrkow and subsequently in Tomaszow, where he became a manufacturer and merchant, but, in consequence of oppression by the Russian government, he removed in 1842 to Hungary. His sympathy was with the people in 1848, and after the failure of the revolutionary movement he determined to leave the country. In 1859 he came to the United States, where he remained until his death.He was a close student of the Talmud, and also of the Greek and later German philosophers, acquiring a high reputation among Jewish scholars as a conservative reformer. His works, written in Hebrew, include several controversial writings, dealing with the reform movement among the Jews. — His son, Michael, b. in Piotrkow, Poland, in 1823; d. in Summit, N. J., 10 May, 1888. He joined the Hungarians in 1848, and was attached in 1849 to the literary bureau of the department of the interior during Kossuth's brief sway. In 1856 he came to the United States, and soon acquired a reputation for scholarship, both in the oriental and modern languages. He was a frequent contributor to literary journals, and his work in connection with the “American Cyclopædia” shows his industry, breadth of view, and exact scholarly attainments. Mr. Heilprin felt a special interest in the Rus-
