Eskuche, Balthasar Ludwig

Eskuche, Balthasar Ludwig a Reformed theologian of Germany, was born at Cassel, March 12, 1710; studied at Marburg; was in 1734 preacher and professor at Rinteln, and died March 16, 1755, leaving, De Naufragio Paulino (Bremen, 1730): — De Requie Pauli in Melita (Magdeburg, 1731): — De Festo Judaeorum Purim (Marburg and Rinteln, 1734): — In Orationem Paulinam in Areopago (Rinteln, 1735-40): — De Festo ξυλοφορίων (ibid. 1738): — Disp. ad Oraculum Jeremiah 31:22 (ibid. 1739): — De Muliere Bethaniensi (ibid.): — Erlauterung der heiligen Schriftaus morgenlandischen Reisebeschreibungen (ibid. 1745, 2 volumes): — Obervationes Philolog. Crit. in Nov. Test. (ibid. 1748-54). See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:134; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:250. (B.P.)