Emanuel Vogel Gerhart was an American

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 minister of the German

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 Reformed church

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He was educated at Marshall College (now Franklin & Marshall College

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) and at the Mercersburg Theological Seminary. After acting as president of Heidelberg College

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 in 1851 he became professor

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 of theology

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 in the Theological Seminary of Tiffin

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, Ohio

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, whence he was called to the presidency of Franklin and Marshall College in 1855, where he also lectured on mental and moral philosophy

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. In 1868, he was appointed professor

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 at the Reformed Church Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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. He edited Frederick Augustus Rauch

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's Inner life and, for several years, the Mercersburg Review, and wrote Philosophy and Logic (1858) and Institutions of the Christian Religion (1891).