Jager, Johann Wolfgang

Jager, Johann Wolfgang a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Stuttgart, March 17, 1647, and died at Tubingen, April 2, 1720, doctor and professor of theology, chancellor, and provost. He is the author of, Historia Ecclesiastica, etc. (1710, 2 volumes fol.; Hamburg, 1709, 1717): — Examen Quietismi: — Separatismus Hodiernus sub Examen Vocatus: — De Doctrina Communicationis Idiomatum: — Compendium Theologiae Positivse. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:285, 481, 579, 887. (B.P.)