Hermes, Hermann Daniel a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born January 2, 1734, in Pomerania. He studied at Halle, was teacher at Berlin in 1752, in 1766 professor at the Magdalene gymnasium in Breslau, in 1771 preacher there. In 1791 he was called to Berlin as member of the examination commission of candidates for the ministry, accepted a call as professor of theology to Kiel in 1805, and died November 12, 1807. Besides several volumes of sermons, he published, Der Christ auf dem Krankenbette (Breslau, 1774): — Die Lehre der heiligen Schrift (1775-79, 3 parts): — Schema Examinis Candidatorum S.S. Ministerii Rite Instituendi (Berlin, 1790): — Briefe uber die Lehrbegsriffe des protestantischen Kirche (Leipsic, 1800): — Versuch zweckmasziger Betrachtungen uber die biblischen Weissagungen (1801). See Doring, Deutsche Kanzelredner; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:483. (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