Cruger, Theodor a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1694 at Stettin, in Pomerania. He studied at Jena and Wittenberg; was in 1721 rector at Lucka, in Lower Lusatia; in 1727, pastor at Kirchhain; in 1732, superintendent at Colditz, and in 1735 at Chemnitz. He was made doctor of theology in 1737, and died June 1, 1751, leaving, Schediasma Historicun, etc. (Wittenberg, 1719): — De Successione Pontificum Romanorum (ibid. 1723): — Heptalogos in Ara Crucis (Frankfort, 1726): — De Veterum Christianorum Disciplina Arcani (Wittenberg, 1727): — Introductio in Christologiam Moralem (Dresden, 1732), etc. See Moser, Jetztlebende Theologen; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:634; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More