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Gieseler Johann Karl Ludwig

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a Lutheran theologian of Germany, born November 21, 1721, at Crossen, in Brandenburg, was preacher in 1745 at Kesselsdorf, in Silesia, in 1755 deacon at Gorlitz, in 1774 archdeacon there, and died December 28, 1788. He wrote, Historische Nachricht von der Bibelubersetzung Martin Luthers (Altdorf, 1771): — Von Luther's Verdiensten und seiner Gehulfen um die Katechismen (Gorlitz, 1782). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:167; 2:213. (B.P.)