Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (August 15, 1817 - June 16, 1887), American divine, was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated at Amherst College in 1836, and later studied at Andover Theological Seminary, Mass. After a visit to Germany he was a tutor at Amherst in 1839-1842, and was minister of the First (Congregational) Church, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1845-1852. He became professor of natural and revealed religion in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1852, and in 1855 professor of church history in the Union Theological Seminary in New York, of which he was president in 1880-1887. He died at Somerset, Massachusetts. Among his works are:
- Life of Edward Robinson (1863)
- Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible (1869)
- Socialism (1879)
- Carmina Sanctorum (with Z Eddy and LW Mudge, 1885)
- Eternal Atonement (1888)
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