Guertler, Nicolaus, Dd

Guertler, Nicolaus, D.D., a learned Protestant divine, was born at Basel in 1654. He studied at the university of that city, and in 1(;85 became professor of philosophy and rhetoric at Herborn. He afterwards became professor of theology at Hanau, and in 1696 at Bremen. From thence he removed to Deventer in 1699. and to Franeker in 1707. He died in 1711. His principal work is Systema theologiae pro-pheticae, cure indicibus necessariis (Utrecht, editio se- cunda emendata, 1724, 4to). — Darling, Cyclop. Biblioq. ii, 1.356; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Genesis 22:855. (J. H. P.)