Baring, Nicolaus

Baring, Nicolaus a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born March 9, 1607, at Zarentin, in Mecklenburg. He studied at Helmstadt; in 1632 was army chaplain; in 1636 pastor at Wilkenburg; in 1641 pastor at St. Egidius's' in Hanover; and in 1642 commenced his theological lectures at Rostock, where he died in 1648. He wrote, Epithalamion Davidicum: — Dissertatio Epistolica de Crucis Signo a Constantino Conspecto: Disquisitio quod Maria Magdalena non fuerit Peccatrix illa Luc. 7:37. See Meiers, Nachrichten von der Reformation in Hannover; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)