Miller, Johann Peter a German Protestant theologian, was born at Leipheim April 26,1725; was educated at the university at Helmstadt; in 1747 went: to Gottingen, and in 1750 became rector of the Latin school at Helmstadt. In 1756 he accepted a similar position at the Lutheran Gymnasium at Halle, but returned in 1766 to Gottingen, as professor of theology, and there died, May 29, 1789. Miller wrote and published a continuation of Mosheim's Sittenlehre. His productions of value are, Das Reich der Natur und Sitten (Halle, 1757- 1762): — Diss. in locum ad Roman. S. 28 (Helmstadt, 1747): — Diss. locus antologicus de Eodem et Diverso (Gotting. 1748, 4to): — Diss. de
notabili et maximo versionis Italae ad verba Christi Matthew 20:28 additamento (ibid. 1749,4to); — J.L. Mosheimii Commentationes et orationes varii generis (Hamburg, 1751, 8vo): — Vollstandiger Auszug aus allen neuen Theilen der Mosheimischen Sittenlehre der heiligen Schrift (Halle, 1765, 8vo; 2d auflage, ibid. 1777, 8vo): — Die Hoffnung besserer Zeiten fur Schulen (ibid. 1765, 4to): — Progr. quo probatur, cum theopneustea Apostolorum nec omniscientiam quasi aliquam, nec anamartesiam fuisse conjunctam (Gotting. 1789, 4to).
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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