HUIDEKOPER, FREDERIC: Unitarian; b. at Meadville, Pa., Apr. 7, 1817; d. there May 10, 1892. He studied at Harvard for a year (1834-35), but was forced by failing sight to cease his studies. From 1839 to 1841 he traveled in Europe, and after his return studied theology privately for two years. In 1844 he aided in the organization of Meadville Theological School, in which he had charge of the New Testament department for five years (1844-49), and where he was professor of church history from 1845 to 1877, being also librarian and treasurer for many years. From 1877 until his death he lived in retirement at Meadville, and in the latter years of his life was totally blind. Besides editing the Acts of Pilate (Cambridge, Mass., 1881), he wrote Belief of the first Three Centuries Concerning Christ's Mission to the Underworld (Boston, 1854); Judaism at Rome B.C. 76 to A.D. 140 (New York, 1876); and Indirect Testimony of History to the Genuineness of the Gospels (1878).
HULBERT, ERI BAKER: Baptist; b. at Chicago July 16, 1841; d. there Feb. 17, 1907. He was educated at Madison University, Union College (B.A., 1863), Hamilton Theological Seminary (M.A., 1865), and the University of Göttingen. He held pastorates at Manchester, Vt. (1865-68), Coventry Street, Chicago (1868-89), the First Baptist Church of St. Paul, Minn. (1869-71), and San Francisco (1871-76), and the Fourth Baptist Church, Chicago (1876,82). From 1882 to 1892 he was professor of church history in Baptist Union Theological Seminary, Chicago, and was professor of the same subject and dean of the divinity school of the University of Chicago (1892-1907). He was also acting president of Baptist Union Theological Seminary in 1884-85.
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An English clergyman and a course of lectures founded by him, for which he is chiefly remembered. He was born at Middlewich (18 m. e. of Chester), Cheshire, Mar. 15, 1708; d. there Dec. 14, 1790. He was graduated from Cambridge University (1728), took orders in 1732, and served as curate in several small places. He came to his inheritance on his father's death in 1753, and retired on account of delicate health. By his will he bequeathed a large part of his property to Cambridge University, founding two scholarships, a prize essay, and the offices of Christian Advocate and Hulsean Lecturer. The latter, by the terms of the will, was to deliver and print twenty sermons each year upon the evidences of Christianity or upon Scriptural difficulties. Subsequent changes in the provision have been made by statute; thus the number of sermons or lectures required was reduced, first to eight, and later to four; while the Hulsean professorship of divinity was substituted for the office of Christian Advocate (1860). Of the income eight-tenths go to the support of the professorship, the other two tenths being divided between the essayist and the lecturer. A list of the published lectures up to 1892-93 may be found in J. F. Hurst, Literature of Theology, New York, 1896, pp. 32-34. The published lectures since 1892 are:
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