Garcaeus, Johannes a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 13, 1530, at Hamburg. He studied at Wittenberg, was in 1557 professor of theology and pastor at Greifswalde, in 1562 superintendent and first-preacher at Brandenburg, and died Jan. 22, 1575. He wrote, De Erigendis Figuris Caeli (Wittenberg, 1556): — De S. Laurentio Martyre (ibid. 1562): — De S. Joanne Baptista (ibid. eod.): — De Magis ex Oriente (ibid. eod.): — De S. Martino Episcopo Turonensi (ibid. 1563): — Confessio Orthodoxa de Spiritu'Sancto (1565): De Infanticidio Herodis (ibid. eod.):-Collatio saumi
Pontificis V. et N.T. (Leipsic, 1574). See Thiess, Hamburg Gelehrten- Lexikon; Jocher, Allgeneines 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