Breithaupt, Andreas Cyriacus

Breithaupt, Andreas Cyriacus a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born October 27, 1705, at Gottingen. He studied at Halle, was in 1736 pastor at Rothenhutte, in 1742 at Altenrode, in 1746 at Ilsenburg, and from 1759 at Wernigerode, where he died, October 13, 1780. He is the author of several hymns. See Kesslin, Nachrichten von Schriftstellern und Kunstlern der Grafchaft Wernigerode, vom Jahre 1074-1855 (Wernigerode, 1856); Jacobs, Zur Geschichte der Bildung und Begfundung der evangelischen Gemeinde und Pfarre zu Ilsenburg (ibid. 1867), page 50; Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 4:500. (B.P.)