Alfred Edersheim

Edersheim, Alfred, D.D., son of wealthy Jewish parents, was born at Vienna, March 7, 1825. He was the first Jew to take prizes at the University of Vienna. During the time he was a student he embraced Christianity, and subsequently studied theology at the universities of Edinburgh and Berlin. He was for some time a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. In 1875 he was ordained by the Bishop of Winchester. He was Curate of Christchurch, Hants; Vicar of Loders, Dorset; Warburtonian Lecturer at Lincoln's Inn; and Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint at the University of Oxford. He died suddenly at Mentone, March 16, 1889. Dr. Edersheim's publications were very numerous, the most important of which are given in Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1889. His Jubilee Rhythm, from which his translations are taken, was published in 1867, and not 1847, as in a misprint on the titlepage.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)