Bauer, Christoph

Bauer, Christoph a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Schneeberg in 1718. He studied at Wittenberg, and in 1744 was appointed deacon at Grafenhaynichen, where in 1766 he also acted as superintendent. In 1768 he was called to the same office in Wurzen, where he died in 1778. He wrote, Die vorwitzige Kunst den Heiland durchs Loos um Rath zu fragen, aus den Quellen des Heidenthums hergeleitet und gepriift (Wittenberg, 1755): — Praktische Priifung der Griinde, womit D. HIeuman unsere

Abendmahlslehre bestritten, aus der Patristik und Kirchengeschichte (ibid. 1765): — Sedes Doctince Biblica de Eterna Filii Dei 'Generatione, Psalmo ii (Leipsic, 1775). See Dietmann, 'Cheursdchsische Priesterscthaft, 4:67; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. 'Lit. i, 356, 453. (B. P.)