Dahl, Johann Christian Wilhelm

Dahl, Johann Christian Wilhelm a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 1, 1771, at Rostock. In 1778 he began his studies at his native place, and after having completed them at Jena and Gottingen, returned as lecturer to Rostock in 1797. In 1802 he was made professor of Greek literature, and in 1804 professor of theology; in 1807 he took his degree as doctor of theology, presenting for his thesis, De αὐθεντίᾷ Epistolarum Petrinea Posterioris atque Judce. He died April 15, 1810. He published, Amos, neu ubersetzt und erlautert (Gottingen, 1795): — Observationes Philologicae atque Criticae ad quaedam Prophetarum inorum Loca (Neu-Strelitz, 1798): — Chrestomathia Philoniana (Hamburg, 1800-1802, 2 volumes): — Lehrbuch der Homiletik (Leipsic, 1811). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:91, 223, 226, 798; 2:60, 97; Doring, Die Gelehrten Theologen. Deutschlands, 1:304 sq.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:194. (B.P.)