WEIDNER, Revere Franklin, clergyman, born in Centre Valley, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 22 November, 1851. He was graduated at Muhlenberg college, Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1869, at the Lutheran theological seminary at Philadelphia in 1873, and was ordained to the ministry, in the latter year. In 1887 he received the degree of D. D. from Carthage college, Illinois. He was tutor in Muhlenberg college in 1868-'9, pastor at Phillipsburg, New Jersey, in 1873-'8, professor of the English language and history at Muhlenberg college in 1875-'7, and pastor in Philadelphia in 1878-'82. He was director of the Theological seminary in Philadelphia in 1882, and has been a frequent delegate to the general council. Dr. Weidner was on the staff of "The Lutheran," in Philadelphia, in 1878-'80, and one of the editors of the "Lutheran Church Review" in 1882-'5. Since 1885 he has been professor of systematic theology and exegesis at Augustana Swedish-English theological seminary, Rock Island, Illinois. He is a member of the American philological association, the American oriental society, the Society of biblical literature and exegesis, and other learned bodies. He has for several years been one of the instructors in the summer schools of Hebrew, under the directorship of Professor William R. Harper, of Yale, and he has devoted much time to a careful and critical study of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible, as well as to Sanskrit and other languages. He is a frequent contributor to theological and philological periodicals, and has published a critically revised translation of the book of Daniel in Dr. Joseph A. Seiss's "Voices from Babylon" (Philadelphia, 1879); "Luther's Small Catechism," with proof-texts, additions, and appendixes (1882); "Thee-logical Encyclopaedia," including "Part I., Exegetical Theology" (1885) and "Part II., Historical Theology" (Chicago, 1888) ; "Biblical Theology of the Old Testament" (Chicago, 1886); " System of the Dogmatic Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Part I., Prolegomena" (Philadelphia, 1888) ; "Grammar of the New Testament Greek" (New York, 1888); "The Greek Text of St. John, according to the Critical Texts of Westcott and Hort, Tischendorf and Tregelles "(1888) ; "Method for the Study of the New Testament Greek" (1888) ; and " Commentary on the Hebrew Text of Obadiah" (Philadelphia, 1888).