Gurlitt, Johann Gottfried

Gurlitt, Johann Gottfried a Lutheran theologian and philologist, was born at Leipsic, March 13, 1754. In 1802 he accepted a call to Hamburg as director of the Johanneum, and professor of Oriental languages at the. academical gymnasium, and died June 14, 1827. A. Gurlitt was the teacher of the famous Church historian Neander. He wrote, Explanatio Brevis Hymni 43 Davidis (Hamburg, 1773): — Kurze Geschichte des Tempelherrenordens (1824). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:228, 365, 375, 589, 679, 702, 722, 730; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:348 sq. (B.P.)