Munter, Balthasar a German theologian, noted as a pulpit orator and scholar, was born at Liibeck March 24, 1735. He studied theology at Jena, was for a time preacher at Gotha, and eventually became celebrated as a pulpit orator in the German Church of Copenhagen, Denmark, where he removed in 1765, and as the editor of the Bekehrungsgeschichte of count Struensee, whom he had attended on the scaffold (Copenhagen, 1772; English translation, entitled A Faithful Narrative of the Conversion and Death of Count Struensee, etc., by the Reverend Mr. Wendeborn [2d ed. Lond. 1774]). Miinter wrote also a series of hymns (1772 and 1774). He died in 1793.
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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