Gobel, Karl

Gobel, Karl a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born February 18, 1808, at Solingen. He studied at Erlangen and Berlin, and was in 1837 appointed pastor at Altwied, near Neuwied-on-the-Rhine. In 1845 he was appointed successor to professor Krafft, at Erlangen, and in 1857 he was called to Posen as pastor of St. Peter's, and member of consistory. He died there April 24, 1881, a doctor of theology and member of the upper consistory. He published, Der heilige Rock, ein evangelisches Zeugniss (Neuwied, 1845): — Evangelisches Zeugniss gegen die Irrlehren des Ghillany und Johannes Ronge (Erlaigen, 1849): — Osterbeute Heilsgutern Christlicher Hoffnung (2d ed. 1860): — Stephanus, der Prediger des Gottes der Herrlichkeit (1853): — Das alte Testament gegen Vorurtheile und Missverstaindnisse der Gebildeten unserer Zeit vertheidigt (1865). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:447. (B.P.)