Faes, Johann a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Liineburg, February 11, 1646. In 1675 he was pastor at Steigerberg, in the county of Hoya, in 1682 at Minden, in 1687 at Stade, and died there in 1712. He wrote, De Jubilaeis Pontficum Romanorum: — Exercitatio in Cartesii Meditationes: — Anatome Bullae Jubilee Universalis Anni 1700: — Expositio in Epistolam ad Philemonem. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:631. (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