Buttstedt, Johann Andreas

Buttstedt, Johann Andreas a German Lutheran doctor and professor of theology, was born Sept. 19,1701, at Kirchheim. He studied at Jena; was in 1741 appointed director of the gymnasium at Hildesheim, in 1743 director at Gera, and in 1751 at Coburg. In 1752 he took his degree as doctor of divinity, and in 1763 was appointed professor of theology at Erlangen, where he died, March 14,1765. He wrote Die Nothwendigkeit der Geheimnisse in der wahren Religion aus der Vernunst bewiesen (Leipsic, 1730) : — Verniinftige Gedanken fiber die Natur Gottes (ibid. 1736): — Ueber die Schopfung der Welt (Wolfenbiittel, 1737): — Ueber die Schopfung des Meischen (Leipsic, 1738): — - Specimen Philologice S. s. Observationum in Selectiora N.T. Loca (Wolfenbuittel, 1740): — Verniinftige Gedanken fiber die Vorsehung Gottes (ibid. 1742): — Ueber den Ursprung des Bosen (ibid. 1747): — Ueber die Vorsehung Gottes in Auschauung der Regierung der Welt (ibid. 1745): — Vom Glauben der ungetauften Kinder (ibid. 1748): — -Von der Gnadenwahl (ibid. 1753-57). See Strodtmann, Neues Gelehrtes Europa, part vi; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 441, 443, 451; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)