Ehereeich Weissmann

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Ehereeich Weissmann [1]

a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born July 15, 1641, at Weyerburg, in Lower Austria. Religious intolerance obliged him to leave his country. He went to Wurtemberg and studied at Tubingen. In 1662 he was appointed pastor at Hirschau; in 1680 special superintendent and pastor atWaiblingen; in 1693 he was called to Stuttgart; was made general superintendent and abbot at Maulbronn in 1711: and died February 23, 1717. He wrote Rhetorica Sacra, besides ten vols. on homiletical subjects. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:58; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)

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