Bormann, Carl Joseph Anton

Bormann, Carl Joseph Anton, a German teacher, was born at Gersosten, in Silesia, in 1766. In 1782 he was teacher at Gleinig, in Silesia, and after having entered upon a military career was appointed, in 1820, secretary of the commission for military studies at Berlin, where he died, Aug. 19, 1841. He wrote, Die Christliche Lehre, etc. (Berlin, 1820): — Die Metaphysische Lehre (ibid. 1828): — Verklarung der Lehre von Gott (ibid. 1831): — Erkldrung der biblischen Geschichten (2d ed. 1858). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1, 448; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1, 172. (B. P.)