The New Student's Reference Work/Fisher, George Park

Fish′er, George Park, an American clergyman and church-historian, was born Aug. 10, 1827, at Wrentham, Mass. He graduated from Brown University in 1847 and, after a course of study in Germany, was made professor of divinity in Yale College in 1854 and of ecclesiastical history in 1861. Among his best-known writings are History of the Reformation, Beginnings of Christianity, Grounds of Theistic and Christian Belief and Nature and Method of Revelation.