Biel Johann Christian

Biel Johann Christian a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Bratnschweig in 1687. He studied at Leipsic, Rostock, and Helmstadt, was in 1719 appointed adjunctus ministerii, and in 1723 pastor of St. Ulrich and St. John in his native place, where he died, Oct. 18, 1745. He wrote, Exercitatio de Lignis ex Libano ad Templlum Hierosolymitanum an dificandum Petitis, etc. (Braunschweig, 1740): — De Puapura Lydia ad Illustr. Locum Actor . 16:14 (in Ugolini, Thesaurus, xiii): — Note in Hesychium (Leipsic, 1746, in J. Albeirti's edition): — Nous Thesaurus Philologicus sive Lexicon in LXX et alios Interpretes et Scriptores Apocryphos V. T., etc., ex auctoris MS. edidit et pre-fatus est E. II. Mutzenbecher (Hague, 1779 sq.), a posthumous work: — Dissertatio Historico Litteraria de Viris Mili tia aeque ac Scriptis Illustribus (Leipsic, 1708). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch. der theol. Lit. i, 50, 148; Furst, Bibl. Jud. i, 115; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)