Griffe, Johann Friedrich Christoph

Griffe, Johann Friedrich Christoph, a German philosophical and theological writer, was born at Gottingen Feb. 15,1754. He studied in the university of that city, became pastor of Obernjesa in 1784, and in 1792 became pastor of a parish and professor of catechetics and of philosophy at Gottingen. He died at Gottingen October 27, 1816. He wrote several works on philosophy and theology, all more or less on the system of Kant. Among them are Vollstandiges Lehrbuch d. allgemeinen Katechetik nach Kantischen Grundsitzen (Gott. 1795-1799, 3 vols. 8vo): — Grundsitze d. allgem. Katech. nach Kantisch. Grundsatzen (Gött. 1799): — De Miraculorum Natura, philosophice principiis nons contradicente (Helmstadt, 1797): — Commentar uber eine der schwersten Stellen in Kants metaphysischen Anfangsgrinden d. Naturwissenschaft (Celle, 1798): — Die Pastoraltheologie nach ihrem ganzen Umfange (Celle, 1803, 2 volumes). — See Beyer, Allg. ag. fur Predig. volume 12; Doering, Gel. Theol. 1:525; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 21:584.