Hempel, Albert Ephraim a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born April 24, 1670. He studied at Leipsic and Wittenberg, was pastor at Nordhausen in 1692, licentiate of theology at Wittenberg in 1697, doctor of theology in 1711, and died March 25, 1722, leaving, De Spinis Coronae Christi (Leipsic, 1686): — De Theologiae Onomatologia: — De τεκνοφιλίᾷ Divina ex Jeremiah 31:10 (Wittenberg, 1691): — De Chiliasmo Descripto et Rejecto (1692): — Consilium Dei circa Hominis Creationem ex Genesis 1:26 (1697): — De Resurrectione Spirituali. See 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