JOHANN LORENZ VON See also:

• JOHANN LORENZ VON MOSHEIM (c. 1694-1755)

MOSHEIM (c. 1694-1755)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German Lutheran divine and See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church historian, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• LUBECK

Lubeck on the 9th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October, 1694 or 1695 . After studying at the gymnasium of his native See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, he entered the university of See also:

• KIEL

Kiel (1716), where he took his See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master's degree in 1718 . In 1719 he became See also:

• ASSESSOR (Lat. assessare, assidere, to sit by)

assessor in the philosophical See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty at Kiel . His first See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance in the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field of literature was in a polemical See also:

• TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract against See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• TOLAND, JOHN [christened JANUS JuN1us] (1670-1722)

Toland, Vindiciae antiquae christianorum disciplinae (1720), which was soon followed by a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of Observationes sacrae (1721) . These See also:

• WORKS

works, along with the reputation he had acquired as a lecturer and preacher, secured for him a See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call to See also:

• HELMSTEDT

Helmstedt as See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor erdinarius in 1723 . The Institutionum historiae ecclesiasticae libri IV. appeared in 1726, and in the same See also:

• YEAR

year he was appointed by the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of Bruns-See also:

• WICK

wick See also:

• ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
• ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
• ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
• ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
• ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

abbot of Marienthal, to which dignity and emolument the abbacy of Michaelstein was added in the following year . See also:

• MOSHEIM, JOHANN LORENZ VON (c. 1694-1755)

Mosheim was much consulted by the authorities when the new university of See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen was being formed; especially in the framing of the statutes of the theological faculty, and the provisions for making the theologians See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent of the ecclesiastical courts . In 1747 he was made See also:

• CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor of the university . He died at Gottingen on the 9th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September . Among his other works were De See also:

• REBUS (Lat. rebus, " by things ")

rebus christianorum ante Constantinum See also:

• COMMENTARII (Lat. = Gr. broµvijµara)

commentarii (1753), Ketzer-Geschichte (2nd ed . 1748), and Sittenlehre der heiligen Schrift (1735–53) . His exegetical writings, characterized by learning and See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good sense, include Cogitationes in N .

T. loc. select . (1726), and expositions of 1 See also:

• COR

Cor . (1741) and the two Epistles to See also:

• TIMOTHY
• TIMOTHY, FIRST EPISTLE TO
• TIMOTHY, SECOND EPISTLE TO

Timothy (1755) . In his sermons (Heilige Reden) considerable eloquence is shown, and a mastery of See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style which justifies the position he held as See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the German Society . There are two See also:

• ENGLISH

English versions of the Institutes, that of See also:

• ARCHIBALD, 5TH EARL OF DOUGLAS (c. 1391–1439)

Archibald Maclaine, published in 1764, and that of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• MURDOCK, WILLIAM (1754-1839)

Murdock (1832), which is the more correct . Murdock's See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation was revised and re-edited by James See also:

• SEATON, SIR JOHN COLBORNE

Seaton See also:

• REID, ROBERT (1862– )
• REID, SIR GEORGE (1841- )
• REID, SIR ROBERT GILLESPIE (184o-19o8)
• REID, SIR WILLIAM (1791-1858)
• REID, THOMAS (1710-1796)
• REID, THOMAS MAYNE (1818-1883)
• REID, WHITELAW (1837- )

Reid in 1848, and by H . L . See also:

• HASTINGS
• HASTINGS, FRANCIS
• HASTINGS, FRANK ABNEY (1794-1828)
• HASTINGS, WARREN (1732-1818)

Hastings in 1892 (See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston) . An English translation of the De rebus christianorum was published by Murdock in 1851 .