Gerhardt, David Gottfried

Gerhardt, David Gottfried a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born May 9, 1734. He studied at Halle, was preacher at Breslau in 1759, pastor primarius and professor in 1778, member of consistory in 1780, and died August 30, 1808. He wrote, De Auctoritate Archaeologiae (Halle, 1757): — Dictum Johanneum 1 Epist. 5, 7 (Breslau, 1764), besides a number of Sermons. See Doring, Die deutschen Kanzelredner, page 62 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1: 271; 2:290. (B.P.)