Beckhaus, Moritz Johann Heinrich

Beckhaus, Moritz Johann Heinrich a German Protestant doctor of theology, was born at Duisseldorf, April 3, 1768. For a time he acted as pastor at Mthlheim, Gladbach, and Iserlohn, and in 1815 he was called as professor of theology to Marburg, where he died in 1829. He wrote, Ueber die Aechtheit der sogenannten Taufformel, Matthew 28:19 (Offenbach, 1794): Ueber die Integritdt der prophetischen Schriften des alten Bundes (Halle, 1796): — De Dictione Tropica N.T. Judicandl et Interpretanda (Marburg, 1819): — Bemerkungen uber den Gebrauch der apokryphischen Bucher des Alten Testaments zur Erluterung der neutest. Schreibart (Leipsic, 1808). He also translated and edited with notes, Heringa, Ueber den Begqrif der Unentbehrlichkeit und den rechten Gebrlauch der' bibl. Kritik. Q (from the Dutch, Offenbach, 1804). He likewise edited Munscher's Lehrbuch der christl. Kirchengeschichte (Marburg, 1826), and Lehrbuch der christlichen Dogmen. (ibid. 1819). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 82, 86, 92, 110, 130, 537,-592; ii, 95; Furst, Bib Jud. i, 95.(B. P.)