Christoph Karl Goittlieb Tucher

Christoph Karl Goittlieb Tucher

a famous jurist of Germany, was born May 14, 1798, at Nuremberg. He studied jurisprudence at Erlangen, Heidelberg, and Berlin, and after ‘ having occupied prominent positions in his profession, he died at Berlin, Feb. 17, 1877. He is known as the author of the following hymnological works: Schatz des evangelischen Kirchenqesanges, der Melodie und Harmonie nach, aus den Quellen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts geschopft, etc. (Stutt. 1840): — Schatz des evangielischen Kirchengesangs im 1. Jahrhundert der Reformation (Leips. 1848, 2 vols). (B. P.)