Ungewitter, Reinhard Christoph a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Marburg, Jan. 25, 1715. He studied in his native place, and when twenty-one years old, he publicly defended his dissertation De Studio Prophetico sobrie Instituendo. After completing his studies, he went to Cassel in 1736, and until the year 1778 he was actively engaged in. pastoral duties. While on a visitation in his function as superintendent and member of consistory, he was paralyzed, and was thus deprived of the power of speech. Although unable to preach, yet he performed the duties connected with his ecclesiastical position, and died Dec. 31,1784. He published, Erklarung des Bries des heiligen, Jakobs (Lemgo, 1754): — Commentatio de Theologo Tempori Serviente (Hersfeldiae, 1755): — Versuch einer feien Uebersetzung der beiden Briefe Petri und der drei Briefe Johannis (Frankfort, 1757): Predsten über wichtige Glaubenswahrheiten und Lebenspfiichten (Cassel, 1780-81, 2 vols.). See Döring, Gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:551 sq. (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