Benjamin B. Warfield

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was born in 1851 in Lexington, Kentucky, in a wealthy family. He entered Princeton University in 1868 and graduated in 1871 with high honors. Despite the fact that Warfield studied mathematics and science in college, later he devoted himself to studying theology, surprising even many of his closest friends. With a desire to become a Presbyterian minister he entered Princeton Seminary in 1873. Warfield married shortly after his graduation in 1876.
Warfield taught at Western Theological Seminary (now Pittsburgh Theological Seminary). He became professor of Theology at Princeton, where he taught from 1887-1921. Throughout his life, he continued to write books and articles, which are still widely read today. History remembers Warfield as one of the last great Princeton Theologians.