SPIEKER, George Frederick, theologian, born in Elk Ridge Landing, Howard County, M d., 17 November, 1844. He was graduated at Baltimore city college in 1863, and studied in Gettysburg theological seminary and in the Lutheran seminary in Philadelphia, 'where he was graduated in 1867. In the same year he was ordained to the ministry by the ministerium of Pennsylvania. He received the degree of D. D. in 1887 from Roanoke college, Salem, Virginia In 1864 he was called to the professorship of German in the Philadelphia theological seminary, which post he occupied till 1866. Immediately after his graduation there he was called to the professorship of German in the Keystone state normal school, Kutztown, where he remained in 1867-'8. On his removal thither he became pastor of Lutheran congregations in and near Kutztown, which he served till 1883. Since October, 1883, he has been the pastor of St. Michael's Lutheran congregation, Allentown, Pennsylvania He has been professor of Hebrew in Muhlenberg college, Allentown, since 1887, president of its board of trustees since 1886, and examiner in doctrinal theology of the ministerium of Pennsylvania since 1882. He is an occasional contributor to periodicals, and was associate editor of the "Lutheran Church Review," Philadelphia, in 1883-'5. He has published " Hut-ter's Compend of Lutheran Theology," translated, with Dr. Henry E. Jacobs (Philadelphia, 1868), and "Wildenhahn's Martin Luther," translated from the German (1883).