TRUDBERT, trut'bert (TRUTPERT): Martyr and founder about 600 of a famous monastery 20 m. s. of Freiburg in the Breisgau; b., possibly in Ireland, in the sixth century; d., according to some, in 607. Legend makes him the brother of Rupert, the apostle to the Bavarians, and states that he

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made a pilgrimage to Italy. His day is Apr. 26. His remains were disinterred in 816, and his basilica was rebuilt. His legendary life is preserved in three recensions: one of the early ninth century (ed. F. J. Mone, Quellensammlung der badischen Landesgeschichte, i. 19-21, Carlsruhe, 1845; MGH, Script. rer. Merov., iv. 352 sqq.), a second by Abbot Erchenbald early in the tenth century (ed. Mone, ut sup., pp. 22-26), and a third written in 1279 or 1280 (ed. ASB, Apr., iii. 424 sqq.).

(D. Kerler†.)

Bibliography: Rettberg, BD. ii. 48-50: Friedrich, AD, ii. 1, pp. 807-813; Hauck, AD, i. 340-341. A number of early sources of greater or lesser value are collected in F. J. Mone, Quellenaammlung der badischen Landesgeschichte, i. 19-28, Carlsruhe, 1848; and in ASB, April, iii. 428-440. Consult further: A. Baur, in. Freiburper Di6 eesan-Archiv, xi (1877), 249-252; also J. C. Meuael, Neueata Literatur der Geschichtskurtde, p. 355, Erfurt, 1780; Rieder, Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für BeJ6rderung der Geschichte ICunde vom Freiburg, aiii (1897), 79-104; HL, sii. 120.

TRUE REFORMED CHURCH. See Reformed (Dutch) Church, II., § 7.

TRUEBLOOD, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: Friend; b. near Salem, Ind., Nov. 25, 1847. He was edu cated at Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. (B.A., 1869), and was principal of Raisin Valley Seminary, Adrian, Mich. (1869-71), professor of English lit erature in Earlham College (1871-73) and of clas sics in Penn College, Ia. (1873-74), and president of Wilmington College, O. (1874-79), and of Penn College (1879-90). In 1890-91 he studied mili tary conditions in Europe, and since 1892 has been general secretary of the American Peace Society, and editor of The Advocate of Peace. He has at tended nearly all the international peace confer ences and has been a vice-president -of several of them. He took part in the National Arbitration conferences at Washington in 1896 and 1904, and in the National Peace Conference at New York in 1907. Theologically he describes himself as "or thodox in a large, general sense," and as accepting the historical method of the study of the Bible, al though not acquiescing in some of the extreme con clusions of higher criticism. He has written The Federation of the World (Boston, 1899); and Inter national Arbitration at the Opening of the 20th Cen tury (1910).