Bail, Johann Samuel

Bail, Johann Samuel a Protestant theologian of Germany, was bori Oct. 27, 1760, at. Griinberg, in Silesia; and died, as first pastor and superintendent, at Glogau, Oct. 27, 1760. He published, Ueber die Religiositdt unsers Zeitalteras (Leipsic, 1803): — Neues Archiv fur Prediger (Liegnitz, 1808-12, 3 vols.): — A rchiv flir die Pastor alwissenschat/ (1819-21, 3 vols.): — CasualReden (Glogau, .1801, 2d ed ): — Unterhaltungenfiir nachdenkende Christen (Hanover, 1817-19, 3 vols.): — Entwurf eines kurzen und fasslichen katechetischen Unterrichts in der Lehre Jesu, etc. (11th ed. 1841). See Winer, Handbuch der theolog. Lit. i. 486; ii, 38, 65, 163, 173, 205, 318, 337, 359, 362, 374; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. i, 63. (B.P.)