Brunings, Christian

Brunings, Christian a Reformed theologian of Germany, was born at Bremen, Jan. 16, 1702. He studied at Bremen and Heidelberg, was in 1725 rector of the gymnasium at Kreutznach, in 1734 pastor at Mannheim, and in 1740 professor of theology at Heidelberg, where he died, March 6, 1763. He wrote, Disputatio de Propitiatorio (Bremen, 1723): — De Ancora Sacra Meditatio ad Hebrews 6:19 (ibid.): — De Liberis Abrahamo Excitandis ad Matthew 3:9, in the Miscellan. Groning. volume 2: — Diss. de Cornu s. Galea Salutis ad Luc. 1:69 (Heidelberg, 1741): — Diss. I, II de Christo Triumphante ad Colossians 2:15; 2 Corinthians 2:14 (ibid.

1742): — Orat. Inaug. de Pallii Prophetici super Elisaeum Injectione, dicta (ibid. 1741): — Primae Lineae Studii Homiletici (Frankfort, 1744): — Diss. de Agno Lucerna Hierosolyma Coelestis ad Apoc. 21:23 (Heidelberg, 1747): — Τὰ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ θεοῦ, i.e. Doctrina de Deo (Frankfort, 1755): — Theses Miscell. de Excommunicatione Judaica (1753): —Compendium Antiquitatuns Hebraicarum (1763). See Neubauer, Jetztlebende Theologen; Strodtmann, Neues gelehrtes Europa; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)