ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON. - Alexander Archibald (v.), Presbyterian minister, born in Philadelphia in 1809, died in Princeton in 1860. From 1838
he taught at Princeton Oriental languages and literatures, rising to fame as America’s foremost philologist; from 1852 ecclesiastical history; from 1858 exegesis of the New Testament.
Drawing on the conservative school of Hengstenberg, he produced learned philological works, including Isaiah (2 vols., New York 1846–47; new ed. Glasgow 1875), but above all several extensive popular commentaries (such as The Psalms, 3 vols., New York 1850; The Acts of the Apostles, 2 vols., 2nd ed. London 1862). To spread knowledge of the sacred books, he planned with Ch. Hodge a series of popular commentaries on the New Testament; he was able to publish only Mark Acts of the Apostles (1858) and Matthew (1860).