PAUL

See also:

• PAUL EBER (1511-1569)

EBER (1511-1569)  , German theologian, was born at Kitzingen in Franconia, and was educated at Nuremberg and Wittenberg, where he became the close friend of Philip Melanchthon . In 1541 he was appointed professor of Latin grammar at Wittenberg, and in 1557 professor of the Old Testament . His range of learning was wide, and he published a handbook of Jewish history, a historical calendar intended to supersede the Roman Saints' Calendar, and a revision of the Latin Old Testament . In the theological conflict of the time he played a large part, doing what he could to mediate between the extremists . From 1559 to the close of his life he was superintendent-general of the electorate of Saxony . He attained some fame as a hymn-writer, his best-known composition being " Wenn wir in hichsten Nothen sein." He died_ at Wittenberg on the loth of December 1569 .