Neudecker, Christian Gotthold a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Gotha in 1807, and died there in 1866. He is the author of, Allgemeines Lexicon der Religions- und christlichen Kirchengeschichte (1834-37, 5 volumes): — Urkunden aus dern Rqformationsgeschichte (Cassel, 1836): — Merkwurdige Aktenstucke aus dem Zeitalter der Reformation (Nuremberg, 1838): Einleitung in das Neue Testament (Leipsic, 1840): — Neue Beitrage zur Geschichte der Reformation (1841, 2 volumes): — Geschichte der deutschen Reformation (1842): — Geschichte des evangelischen Protestantismus in Deutschland (1844, 2 parts): — Pacification der evangelisch-protestantischen Kirche Deutschlands (1846). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:512, 741; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:936. (B.P.)
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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