Eskuche, Balthasar Ludwig a Reformed theologian of Germany, was born at Cassel, March 12, 1710; studied at Marburg; was in 1734 preacher and professor at Rinteln, and died March 16, 1755, leaving, De Naufragio Paulino (Bremen, 1730): — De Requie Pauli in Melita (Magdeburg, 1731): — De Festo Judaeorum Purim (Marburg and Rinteln, 1734): — In Orationem Paulinam in Areopago (Rinteln, 1735-40): — De Festo ξυλοφορίων (ibid. 1738): — Disp. ad Oraculum Jeremiah 31:22 (ibid. 1739): — De Muliere Bethaniensi (ibid.): — Erlauterung der heiligen Schriftaus morgenlandischen Reisebeschreibungen (ibid. 1745, 2 volumes): — Obervationes Philolog. Crit. in Nov. Test. (ibid. 1748-54). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:134; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:250. (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