Gebser, August Rudolph

Gebser, August Rudolph a Lutheran theologian. of Germany, was born January 19, 1801, in Thuringia. In 1823 he commenced his academical career at Jena, was in 1828 professor of theology, in 1829 professor, superintendent, and first cathedral preacher at Konigsberg, and died at Halle, June 22, 1874. He wrote, De Explicatione Sacrae Scripturae, Praesertim Novi Testamenti e Libro Zendavesta (Jena, 1824): — De Oratione Dominica (Konigsberg, 1830): — Der Brief des Jacobus ubersetzt und ausfuhrlich erklart (Berlin, 1828): — Commentatio de Primordiis Studioruam Fanaticorum Anabaptistarum (Konigsberg, 1830): — Bibliotheca Latina Vet. Poetarum Christianorum (Jena, 1827): — Vollstandige Geschichte des Thomas Munzer und der Bauernkriege in Thuringen (1831): — Geschichte der Domkirche zu Konigsberg und des Bisthums Samland (1835). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:405 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:110, 247, 272, 767, 809, 880. (B.P.)