Gensel, Johann Christian

Gensel, Johann Christian a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at.Annaberg, Dec. 2, 1702. He studied at Wittenberg, Leipsic, and Jena, was preacher in his native place in 1727, superintendent in 1748, and died September 6, 1762. He published, Observationes Sacrae (Leipsic, 1733; 2d ed. 1750): — Diss. ad Locum Pauli 2 Corinthians 12:4 (1749): — De Revelationibus et Revelationurn Modis (eod.). See Dietmann, Chursachsische Priester; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)