Berger, Johann Gottfried Immanuel

Berger, Johann Gottfried Immanuel a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born July 27, 1773, at Ruhland, in Upper Lusatia. He studied at Gottingen, was in 1802 appointed first preacher at Schneeberg, and died May 30, 1803. He wrote, Aphorismnen

zu einer Wissenschnaftslehre der Religion (Leipsic, 1796): — Versuch einer moralischen Einleitung in das Neue Testament (Lemgo, 1797-1801): — Versuch einer praktischen Einleitung in das Alte Testament (Leipsic, 1798-99, 2 vols.; the third was edited by Augusti, ibid. 1806): — Geschichte der Religionsphilosophie (Berlin, 1800): — Reinhard's Vorilesungen uber die Dogmatik mit Zuntzen (Amberg and Sulzbach, 1801). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, i, 85 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 281, 300; First, Bibl. Jud. i, 109. (B. P.)