Hecker, Jacob Christian

Hecker, Jacob Christian a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1727. He studied at Ieipsic and Gottingen, was in 1751 deacon at Meuselwitz, in Altenburg, pastor at Eisleben in 1764 and died April 14, 1779. He published, De Oratore Sacro (Gottinugen, 1748): — De Erroribus Vulgi in Libris Sacris (eod.): — De Usu Religionis Christianae OEconomico et Civili (Kiel, 1770). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)