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ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (18081884)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 565 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (18081884) , Scottish divine, was born at Leith on the 24th of August 18o8. He was educated at the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh, where he gained a lasting reputation for classical scholarship. He entered Glasgow Theological Academy under Ralph Wardlaw in September 1827, but in December of the same year he left to become classical tutor at the Blackburn Theological Academy (afterwards the Lancashire Independent College). At Blackburn he stayed till 1831, lecturing on biblical literature, metaphysics, Greek and Latin. After short visits to Germany and London he was invited in November 1834 to become minister of North College Street church (afterwards Argyle Square), Edinburgh, an independent church which had arisen out of the evangelical

movement

MOVEMENT

associated with the Haldanes. He deliberately put aside the ambition to become a pulpit orator in favour of the practice of biblical exposition, which he invested with a singular charm and impressiveness. In 1836 he became one of the editors of the Congregational Magazine, to which he contributed articles on biblical literature and theology and on the " voluntary " controversy. In 184o he delivered the Congregational Lecture in London on the " Connexion and Harmony of the Old and New Testaments."
Alexander took an active part in the " voluntary " controversy which ended in the Disruption, but he also maintained broad and catholic views of the spiritual relations between different sections of the Christian church. In 1845 he visited Switzerland with the

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SPECIAL

object of inquiring into the religious life of the churches there. He published an account of his journey in a book, Switzerland and the' Swiss Churches, which led to an inter-

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

of correspondence between the Swiss and Scottish churches. In 1845 he received the degree of D.D. from the university of St Andrews. In 1861 he undertook the editorship of the third edition of

Kitto

KITTO, JOHN (1804–1854)

's Biblical Encyclopaedia with the understanding that the whole

work

WORK

should be thoroughly revised and brought up to date. In January 187o he became one of the committee of Old Testament revisers, and by his thorough biblical scholarship rendered exceptional service to the board; he enjoyed the

work

WORK

and devoted much time to it for the next fourteen years. In 1877 he became principal of the Edinburgh Theological

Hall

, a position which he held, in spite of many tempting offers of preferment elsewhere, until his death on the loth of December 1884.
See his Life and Work by James Ross (1887). (D. Mn.) ALEXANDER AETOLUS, of Pleuron in Aetolia, Greek poet and man of letters, the only representative of Aetolian poetry, flourished about 280 B.C. When living in Alexandria he was commissioned by

Ptolemy

PTOLEMY (
CLAUDIUS
PTOLEMAEUS)

Philadelphus to arrange the tragedies and satyric dramas in the library; some ten years later he took up his residence at the court of Antigonus Gonatas, king of Macedonia. His reputation as a tragic poet was so high that he was allotted a place in the Alexandrian tragic Pleiad; we only know the title of one play (Astragalistae). He also wrote short epics, epigrams and elegies, the considerable fragments of which show learning and eloquence.

Meineke

MEINEKE, JOHANN ALBRECHT FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1790-1870)

, Analecta Alexandrina (1853); Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Graeci; Couat, La Poesie alexandrine (1882).

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