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a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born July 14,1814, at Tonning, on the Eider. From 1833 to 1837 he studied theology at Kiel and Berlin; in 1840 he was made deacon at Itzehoe, in 1857 pastor primarius and provost, in 1868 member of the Lutheran consistory at Kiel, and died Aug. 2,1873. Versmann belongs to the most prominent theologians of Sleswick- Holstein. Besides sermons and other ascetical writings, he published Das Leben Jesu in 12 Vortragen (Itzehoe, 1865). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2, 1384. (B. P.)