Kahler, Ludwig August a Protestant theologian of Germany was born March 6, 1775, at Sommerfeld, Prussia. Having completed his studies, he was appointed in 1798 preacher at Canig, near Guben, in 1809 deacon and in 1812 archdeacon at Cotbus, in 1819 member of consistory, preacher, and professor of theology at Konigsberg, where he died in 1856, a doctor of theology. He published, Christliche Sittenlehre (Konigsberg, 1833): — Beitrage zu den Versuchen neuerer Zeit, den Katholicismus zu Wdealisiren (ibid. 1828): — Supernaturalismus und Rationalismus in ihrem gemeinschaftlichen Ursprunge, etc. (Leipsic, 1818): — Ueber Schwarmerei, Begeisterung, scheinbare und wahre Grosse (Konigsberg, 1820): — Predigten uber den alleinseligmachenden Glauben an den Sohn Gottes (ibid. 1826): — Die christliche Lehre nach der heiligen Schrift (2d ed. 1836): — Wissenschaftlicher Abriss der christlichen Sittenlehre (ibid. 1835,1836). See Zuchold, Ribl. Theol. 1:638; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:302, 315, 346, 368, 371, 385; 2:22, 26, 48, 76, 157, 177, 197, 200, 234,361; Dr. Ludwig A. Kohler, Mittheilungen uber sein Leben und seine Schriften, von S.A. Kahler (Konigsberg, 1856). (B.P.)
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