Hosmann, Gustav Christoph a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born May 16, 1695. He studied at Leipsic and Kiel, was deacon in 1721, and professor of theology at Kiel in 1730. In 1734 he was appointed first court-preacher, in 1749 general superintendent, and died July 10, 1766. He wrote, Disp. Exeget. ad Galatians 3:19 (Kiel, 1720):-Hypotyposis Chronologiae Sacrae (Hamburg, 1727): — Annotationes ad Hypotyposin Chronologiae Sacrae (1729): — De Resurrectione Mortuorum a Christo Demonstrata Luc. 2:37, 38: — De Baptisno Apostoloruns hoc de Mysterio Sententiam Evolvens (1732): — Principia Theologiae Comparativae (eod.): —
Chronologia Sacra Librorum V. Test. Observationibus Exegeticis Illustrata (1734): — Exercitationum Exegeticarum ad SS. Evangelia Fasciculi III (1746-50): — Chronologia Jeremiae, Ezechielis, Haggae, Zacharice, Esrae et Nehemiae (1751): — Historia Samuelis, Sauli et Davidis (1752): — Disquisitio de Era Seleucidarum et Regum Syriae Successione (eod.): — Semicenturia-Observationum Sacrarum (1753). See Moser, Jetztlebende Theologen; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:901; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)
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