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a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born March 3, 1763, and died Oct. 5, 1877, as general superintendent at Meiningen. He was an excellent pulpit orator and a very learned theologian. He wrote, Das Christliche in Plato und in der platonischen Philosophie (Hamburg, 1835; Engl transl. by S. A. Asbury, The Christian Element in Plato and Platonic Philosophy Unfolded and Set Forth, Edinburgh, 1861): — Rathgebe fiir Prediger (Schwerin, 1847): — Die Glaubenssdtze von Christi 1ollenfcahrt und von der A uferstehung des Fleisches, etc. (Hamburg, 1845): — Die. Beichte, besonders die Privat beichte (Gotha, 1853): — Handbuch zu Luther's Katechismus mit Bibelstellen (Meiningen, 1857): — Luther, seinem vollen Werth und Wesen nach, dar gestellt aus seinen Schriften (Jena, 1871). He published a number of Sermons, for which see Zuchold, Biblioth. Thebl. 1, 4 sq, (B. P.)