Konig, Johann Priedrich a German Lutheran theologian, was born at Dresden October 16, 1619. He studied at Leipzig and Wittenberg; became professor of theology at Greifswalde in 1651, superintendent of Mecklenburg and Ratzeburg in 1656, and finally professor of theology at Rostock in 1659, where he died Sept. 15,1664. His Theologia positiva acroamatica (Rost. 1664: 6th ed. Rest. 1680, 8vo; Wittenb. 1755) became, notwithstanding its dryness, a very popular text-book of dogmatics. Hahn, Richter, and Haferung have expounded and commented upon it, and it became the foundation of J. A. Quenstadt's celebrated work. See Walch, Bibl. theol. sel. i, 39; Heinrich, Versuch einer Geschichte d. verschiedenen Lehrarten d. christlichen Glaubenswarheiten, etc. (Leipz. 1790); Schrockh, Kirchengesch. seit l. Refor. 8:11 sq.; Gass, Gesch. d. prot. ognmatik, i, 321 sq.; Herzog, Real Encyclopadie, 8:1 sq.
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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