Schmid, Heinrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born July 31, 1811, at Harburg, near Nordlingen. He studied at Halle and Berlin, commenced his academical career at Erlangen in 1837, was in 1848 professor of theology, and died November 17, 1885. He wrote, Ueber Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre (Leipsic, 1835): — Die Dogmatik der evangelisch- lutherischen Kirche dargestellt (6th ed. 1876): — Geschichte der synkretistischen Streitigkeiten in der Zeit des Georg Calixt (Erlangen, 1846): — Lehrbuch der Kirchen geschichte (2d ed. 1856): — Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte (1880-81, 2 volumes): — Die Theologie Semler's (1858): — Lehrbuch der Dogmen geschichte (1859): — Geschichte des Pietismus (1863): — Kampf der lutherischen Kirche um Luther's Lehre vom Abendmahl (2d ed. 1873): — Geschichte der kathol. Kirche Deutschlands, etc. (1872-74). (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