Bieler Benjamin

Bieler Benjamin a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born Feb. 15, 1693, at Plankenstein near Dresden. He studied at Leipsic and Wittenberg, was in 1724 pastor at Bethau and Naundorf near Lichtenberg, in Saxony, and in 1734 pastor at Schweinitz, where he died in 1772. He wrote, De Theologia Emblematica (Leipsic, 1725): — Observationes de Crucifixione Messice ad Locunb Vexatissinmum de כארי Psalmo 22:17 (ibid. 1733): — De Cathedra S. Petri Antiochice Romceque Corrupta ac deperdita brevis Commentatio, etc. (Helmstadt, 1738): — De Spiritu Sanctificationis Comnmentatio, qua Locum Quodammodo Vexatum Rom. i, 4, Exponere Studet (Wittenberg, 1740): — De Palatiis Eburneis BBrevis ad Locum Difficilem Psalm xlv, 9, Adnotatio (Leipsic, 1745): — De Sapientia Salvatoris ad Esa. lii, 13 (ibid. 1740). See Rathlef, Jetztlebende Theologen, 4:519 sq.; Moser u. Neubauer, Jetztlebende Theologen, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten - Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)