Oporin, Joachim a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 12, 1695. He studied at different universities, and commenced his academical career at Kiel in 1719. In 1733 he was professor of theology, in 1735 went to Gottingen, and died Sept. 5, 1753, doctor of theology. He published, Historice Criticae de Perennitate Animi Humani (Kiel, 1719): — Historia Critica Doctrinae de Immortalitate lMortdliun, etc. (Hamburg, 1735): — De Messia, cum Infans Esset (1739): — De Firmitate ac Inspiratione Divina (1740): — Clavis Evangelii Joannis (Gottingen, 1743): — Zacharias auf's Neue ubersetzt, etc.: — Diss. Oracula Esaice c. 40-55 (1750), etc. See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:49; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v., where a complete list of Oporin's writings is given. (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