Janisch, Rudolph

Janisch, Rudolph a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hamburg, May 22, 1750. He studied at Gottingen, was catechist in his native city, and in 1789 pastor of the Lutheran Church at Amsterdam. In 1796 he was recalled to Hamburg, and died April 7, 1826, pastor primarius of St. Catharine's. He wrote, Cogitationes de Animi Humani Libertate (Hamburg, 1770): — Predigtentwurfe fur die sonn- und festtaglichen Evangelien (1797-1804, 8 parts). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:149. (B.P.)