Hemsen, Johann Tychsen

Hemsen, Johann Tychsen a German theologian, was born at Boldixum (Schleswig) Oct. 15,1 1.92. He studied at Copenhagen and Göttingen, where he graduated in 1821. In 1823 he became extraordinary professor of theology in the University of Göttingen, and died there May 14, 1830. He wrote Anaxagoras Klazonenemnsis, seu de vita ejus ephilosophiat (Gött. 1821, 8vo):Die Authenticitaet d. Schriften d. Evangelisten Johannes (Schleswig, 1823; against Bretschneider's Probabilien): — De Christologia Joannis Baptistce (Gott. 1824): — Der Apostel Paulus, sein Leben, Wirken, und seine Schriften, posthumous (Gött. 1830, 8vo), etc. He also wrote in the Gelehrte Anzeigeen of Göttingen, and the Neue Krit. Bibliothek of Seebold; and edited Staüdlin's Gesch. u. Littérateur d. Kirchengesch. (Hanover, 1827), and Berengarii Turonensis Liber de sacra Caena, adversus Lanzfrancum (Lpz. 1830). 'See Neuer Nekrolog d. Deutschen (1830), 1, 422-424; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé 23, 901. (J. N. P.)