Harenberg, Johann Christoph

Harenberg, Johann Christoph a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born April 24, 1696, studied at Helmstadt, and was rector at Gandersheim in 1720. In 1735 he was pastor, and accepted a call in 1745 as professor of history and antiquities to Brunswick, where he died, November 12, 1774. He wrote, Kurze Einleituuig in die AEthiopische, sonderlich Halbessinische alte und neue Theologie (Helmstadt, 1719): — De Specularibus Veteslim, ad Locunm 1 Corinthians 13:12 (ibid. eod.): — Veri Divinique Natales Circumcisionis Judaicae, Tenmpli Salomonei, Musices Davidicae in Sacris, et Baptismi Christianorum (1720): — Jura Israelitatrum in Palaestinams (Hildesheim, 1724): — De Articulis Suobacensibus, Fundamento Augustanae Confessionis (Brunswick, 1730): — Historia Ecclesiae Gundersheimensis Cathedralis et Collegiatae Diplomatica (Hanover, 1734): — Otia Gunderusheimensis, Exponendis Sacris Litteris et Historia Ecclesiastiae Dicata, Complexa XIII Observationes (Utrecht, 1740): — Zwei Religionisspotter, Celsus und Edelmann (Leipsic, 1748): — Amos Propheta, Expositus Inteupretatione Nova Latina (Leyden, 1763): — Auflarung des Buches Daniel (1773, 2 volumes). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:21, 221, 226, 594, 722, 798; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)