Frederic Henry Hedge | |
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| Born | December 12, 1805 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Died | August 21, 1890 (aged 84) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
| Education | Harvard Divinity School |
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Frederic Henry Hedge (December 12, 1805 – August 21, 1890) was a New England Unitarian minister and Transcendentalist. He was a founder of the Transcendental Club, originally called Hedge's Club,[1] and active in the development of Transcendentalism, although he distanced himself from the movement as it advanced.
He was also one of the foremost scholars of German literature in the United States.
- ^ Cheever, Susan. American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau; Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (2006). Detroit: Thorndike Press. Large print edition. ISBN 0-7862-9521-X. p. 33