Hecht, Christian

Hecht, Christian a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born August 31, 1696, at Halle. He studied in his native place and at Leipsic; was in 1728 pro-rector of the gymnasium at Idstein, Nassau; in 1744 first pastor at Esens, in East-Frisia; and died January 18, 1747, leaving, Diss. de Sadducceismo Anna et Caiphae: — Antiquitates Kauraeorum: — Varia Variorum Judicia de Synesii, Cyrenensis in AEgypto Episcopi, Fuga Istius Episcopatus: — Commentatio de Secta Scribarum sive γραμματέων. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:1, 451; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)