Fischer, Erdmann Rudolph

Fischer, Erdmann Rudolph a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born November 28, 1687, was in 1721 preacher at Coburg, in 1758 general superintendent there, and died June 1, 1776. He wrote, Comm. de θεοδρόμοις Veteris Ecclesiae Legatis (Coburg, 1717): Vita Jo. Gerhardi (Leipsic, 1723): — Die unverdinderte Augsburgische Confession (Coburg, 1730; 1755): — De Eliqenda inter Christianos Religione Dissidentes (ibid. 1734): — Cypriani Dissertationes Varii: Argumenti (ibid. 1755): — Hieronymi Epist. ad Nepotianum (ibid. 1758). See Moser and Neubauer, Jetztlebende Theologen; Meusel, Gelehrtes Deutschland; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:20, 30, 613, 860. (B.P.)