Friedrich August Rauch, a German philosopher, born at Kirchbracht, Hesse-Darmstadt, July 27, 1806, died in Mercersburg, Pa., March 2, 1841. He graduated at the university of Marburg in 1827, afterward studied at Gies-sen and Heidelberg, and in his 24th year became extraordinary professor in the university of Giessen, and soon afterward ordinary professor at Heidelberg. Before assuming the duties of the latter appointment, he incurred the displeasure of the government by too free an expression of his political sentiments, and fled. He arrived in America in 1831, and in June, 1832, was ordained to the ministry, and called to York, Pa., to take charge of a classical school in connection with the theological seminary of the German Reformed church. In 1835 he was chosen president of Marshall college, Mercersburg, acting at the same time as professor of Biblical literature in the theological seminary, which had been removed to that place. He continued in this double office up to the time of his death. He published "Psychology, or a View of the Human Soul" (1840), and left unfinished a work entitled "Christian Ethics." A volume of his sermons was edited by the Rev. Dr. Gerhart, entitled " The Inner Life of the Christian" (Philadelphia, 1856).