Hempel, Ernst Wilhelm

Hempel, Ernst Wilhelm a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1745. He studied at Leipsic. In 1769 he was university preacher at Leipsic, professor of philosophy in 1776, in 1787 professor of theology, and died April 12,1799, leaving, Cuinam S.S. Trinitatis Personae Promulgatio Legis Praecipue Tribuenda sit (Leipsic, 1771): — De Sapientia Dei (1773): — Prima Linguae Ebraeae Elementa (1776, 1789): — Kurze und treue Beschreibung der Kennicotschen Bibelausgabe (1777): — De vera Significatione Vocabuli Semen (1787): — De Deo Invisibili (1790-91, 4 parts): — De loco Galat. 3:20 (1792): — Fidem Litteris Sacris Hacabendam Rationi Convenienter Postulari (1794, 4 parts). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands. s.v. (B.P.)