Cless, David Jonathan

Cless, David Jonathan, a German theologian, father of the preceding, was born Aug. 20, 1731, at Rommelshausen. He studied at Tubingen, was in 1761 deacon at Calw, in 1782 dean at Wildberg, and in 1790 at Goppingen, and died March 6, 1803. He wrote Diss. de co, quod Justum est Circa Revelanda vel Reti- cenda Delicta Occult, Elitin Atrocia (Tubingen, 1754): — Versuch uber den Neutestamentlichen Begriff des Glaubens (ibid. 1778). See Doring, Die Gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, i, 258; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 444. (B, P.)