HARTRANFT, CHESTER DAVID: Congrega tionalist; b. at Frederick, Pa., Oct. 15, 1839. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1861) and at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary (1864), after having served in the Civil war as captain of the Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers. He held pastorates at the Dutch Reformed Church, South Bushwick, N. Y. (186"6), and at the Second Dutch Reformed Church, New Brunswick, N. J. (1866-78), giving much attention during the latter charge to oratorio. and choral singing. From 1879 to 1888 he was Waldo pro fessor of ecclesiastical history in Hartford Theological Seminary, of which he was president from 1888 to 1903, and has been honorary president there since 1903. He was also professor of Biblical theology in the same institution from 1892 to 1897, and of ecclesiastical dogmatics from 1897 to 1903. He has revised the Anti-Donatist writings of St. Augustine and the "Ecclesiastical History" of Sozomen for the American edition of The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (New York, 1887, 1890). Of late years he has resided in Germany, engaged in researches into the early history of the Schwenckfelders, the re sult of which is his editorship, assisted by 0. B. Schlutter and E. E. Schultz, Johnson of Corpus Schwenckfeldianorum (vol. i. Leipsic, 1907).

HARTZELL, JOSEPH CRANE: Methodist Epis copal bishop; b. at Moline, Ill., June 1, 1842. He was educated at Illinois Wesleyan University (B.A.,1868) and Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago (1868), and was pastor at Pekin, Ill. (1868-69), and New Orleans, La. (1870-72). From 1872 until 1882 he was presiding elder of the New Orleans district and founder and editor of the South-Western Christian Advocate. He was assistant corresponding secretary of the Southern Education Society of his denomination from 1882 to 1887, and chief secretary from 1888 to 1896. In 1897 he was elected bishop for Africa. He was a member of the Methodist Ecumenical conferences held at Washing ton in 1878 and at London in 1898. He is the author of several sermons and of numerous addresses and contributions to periodicals on educational and racial topics connected with America and Africa.

HARTZHEIM, JOSEPH VON: Jesuit; b. at Cologne Jan. 11, 1694; d. there Jan. 14, 1762. At the age of eighteen he became a novice of the Society of Jesus, and at the conclusion of his novitiate studied at the College of Luxemburg, and then taught Hebrew at the College of Cologne for a year, after which he traveled in Italy. Returning to his native city, he was first a teacher and then rector (1726-48) at the Gymnasium Tricoronatum. He remained cathedral preacher until his death. His chief work was his continuation and partial editing of the collection of the acts of the German councils begun by the Fulda scholar J. F. Schannat (b.1685; d. 1739), of which he published the first four volumes under the title Concilia Germanise quce . . . Jo. Frid. Schannat magna ex parts collegit, dein P. Jos. Hartzheim, S. J., plurimum auxit, continuavit, notia, digressioni6us criticis, etc., illustravit (Cologne, 1759-63). The fifth volume, extending to 1500, appeared in the year of Hartzheim's death. Hartzheim wrote also: De inztio metropoleos ecclesiastiue Colonies, Claudice Augustm Aggripinensium (3 parts, Cologne, 1731-32); Dissertationes decem historico~icce in Sanctam Scripturam (1736-46); Bibliotheca scriptorum Coloniensium (1747); His toria rei nummarim Coloniensis (1754); and Prodromus historice Universitatis Coloniensis (1759). A number of his writings, such as preliminary studies for a Historic litteraria Germanise, as well as his Vita diplamatica Sancti Annonis and Historia gymnasii tricoronati, exist only in manuscript.

(O. Zöckler†.)

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