Ehinger, Elias a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 7, 1573. He studied at Wittenberg and Tilbingen, and was in 1597 court-preacher at Albertsberg, in Lower Austria. Being obliged to leave the country on account of intolerance, he went in 1605 to Rothenburg, on the Tauber, was made rector there, and accepted a call in 1607 to Augsburg. In 1629 he had to leave that place also, and went to Schul-Pforta, in Saxony. Being recalled to Augsburg, he stayed. there only a short time, and went in 1635 to Regensburg, where he died, November 28, 1653. He is the author of a large number of writings, of little value for our time. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Brucker, Commentarius de Vita et Scriptis Ehingeri (1724). (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