Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — THE LATE DR. PHILIP SCHAFF. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LATE DR. PHILIP SCHAFF.

The Famous Biblical Scholar and Writer of Church History. Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, eminent as a writer of church history and teacher of sacred literature, recently died

at his home in New York. He was born at Coire, Switzerland, in 1819, His father, who was a soldier, died early in life, and at 10 years of age the , boy was forced to earn his own liv

dr phidip schaff. ing. He worked his way through the gymnasium at Stuttgart, and afterwards attended lectures at Halle, Tubingen and Berlin. He spent a winter at Borne, working in the library of the Vatican by special permission of the Pope. Last year, or fifty years later, he worked in this library, securing Pope Leo’s permission through a letter from Cardinal Gibbons. Young Schafl was ordained in 1844. Then he came to this country and was professor in the Theological Seminary oi the German Eeformed Church of the United States until the year 1863. In 1870 he accepted the professorship of sacred literature in Union Theological Seminary, in which he was active until a short time ago. He was many times sent to Europe in the interest of the American Evangelical Alliance. Dr. Schaff is best remembered as President of the American Bible Bevision Committee. His works are mainly historical and exegetical.