Francis Greenwood Peabody

Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936) was an American Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University.^[8]

The Reverend Francis Greenwood Peabody
Born	(1847-12-04)December 4, 1847 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	December 28, 1936(1936-12-28) (aged 89) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse	Cora Weld ​ ​ (m. 1872; died 1914)​ [1][2]
Parents	Ephraim Peabody[3] Mary Jane Derby Peabody[4]
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Unitarian)
Ordained	1874
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Influences	Otto Pfleiderer[5] August Tholuck[5]
Academic work
Discipline	Theology
Sub-discipline	Christian ethics[6]
School or tradition	Social Gospel[7]
Institutions	Harvard University

Peabody was born on December 4, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts.^[9] He graduated from Harvard University in 1869. When a junior, "he was first baseman in the first Harvard nine to play against Yale." He then went to the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1872 with the degrees of AM and STB.^[2]

Peabody died in his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home on December 28, 1936.^[10]

Works

• Jesus Christ and the Christian Character by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 0-559-60371-1
• The Christian Life in the Modern World by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-61593-0
• The Religious Education of an American Citizen by Francis Greenwood Peabody ISBN 1-110-58699-X
• Organized Labor and Capital: The William L. Bull Lectures for the Year 1904 , with Washington Gladden, Talcott Williams, and George Hodges
• Afternoons in the College Chapel by Francis Greenwood Peabody 1898

Translations

• Happiness: Essays on the meaning of life, by Karl Hilty (1903)