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Becker, Johann Heinrich

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Rostock, Aug. 14, 1698. He studied at Jena, Halle, and Wittenberg; was in 1725 plastor of St. Nicolai, in his native place; in 1730, professor of ethics; in 1736 he was made doctor of divinity, and in 1743 professor of theology. He died in 1772. He wrote, Disputatio de Pathologia Sacra (Rostock, 1722): De Angelorum Lapsorum ex Inferno per Christumn Speranda Restitutione, ex Ebr. ii, 16 (ibid. 1736):Utrum Potius in Voluntate an Vero in Intelleciu Vitium sit Atheismus? (ibid. 1737). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Neues Gelehrtes Europd, ii, 618. (B. P.)

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Becker, Johann Heinrich'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​b/becker-johann-heinrich.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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