WARREN, William Fairfield, educator, born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, 13 March, 1833. He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1853, became a Methodist minister in the New England conference in 1855, and afterward studied theology at Andover, Berlin, and Halle. In 1857 he was a delegate to the world's convention of the Evangelical alliance at Berlin, and he afterward made a tour through the East. In 1861 he was appointed professor of systematic theology in the Methodist Episcopal mission theological institute at Bremen, Germany, which subsequently became the Martin institute at Frankfort, and in 1866 in Boston theological seminary, subsequently a department of Boston university, of which institution he has been president since 1873, and also professor of the comparative history of religions, comparative theology, and philosophy of religion. He was appointed a member of the American committee for the revision of the New Testament, but did not attend its meetings, he received the degree of D. D. from Ohio Wesleyan university in 1862, and that of LL.D. from Wesleyan university, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1874. He published "Anfangsgrunde der Logik" (Bremen, 1864); "Einleitung in die systematische Theologic " (part i., 1865); and " Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole" (Boston, 1885).