Buttner, Johann Ernst

Buttner, Johann Ernst a Lutheran minister of Germany, was born April 11, 1648, at Friedersdorf, in Upper Lausatia. He studied at Jena; was in 1676 conrector at Lemgo, in 1678 at Stade, in 1685 deacon there; in 1699 he was made pastor primarius of St. Nicolai; and died March 13, 1725. He wrote, Disp. de Essenis (Jena): — De Nonzine A Messice Glorioso Jehovah Justitia nostra ex Jer. xiii, 6: — Inquisitio Theol. in Historian Joannisfili Zacharice (ibid. 1670): — Disp. Hist. de Civitate Romana Virgidemiis Exenta (ibid. 1672). See Seelen in Stada litter. p. 15; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)