BRIGGS, CHARLES AUGUSTUS Ameri can Hebrew scholar and theologian, was born in New York city, Jan. 15, 1841. He was educated at the University of Virginia, the Union Theological Seminary, and the University of Berlin. After a pastorship in the Presbyterian church of Roselle (N.J.), he went to the Union Theological seminary, where he held suc cessively three different professorships. In 1892 he was tried for heresy by the presbytery of New York and acquitted. The Gen eral Assembly, to which the case was appealed, suspended Dr. Briggs in 1893, being influenced, it would seem, in part, by what his colleagues called the "dogmatic and irritating" nature of his inaugural address. He was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1900. With S. R. Driver and Francis Brown he prepared a revised Hebrew and English Lexicon (1891-1905), and with Driver edited the International Critical Commentary. His publications include Biblical Study (1883) ; American Presby terianism (1885); Messianic Prophecy ; Whither? A Theological Question for the Times (1889) ; The Bible, the Church and the Reason (1892); New Light on the Life of Jesus (1904) ; A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms (1906-07), in which he was assisted by his daughter; Church Unity (1909) ; The Fundamental Christian Faith 0913); and, posthumously, Theological Symbolics (1914). He died in New York, on June 8, 1913.