Kestner, Christian August

Kestner, Christian August a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born in 1794, and died at Jena, October 27, 1821, professor of theology. He is the author of, Ueber den naturhistorischen Kampf unter den beiden ersten Antoninen, etc. (Jena, 1818): — Die Agape unter Domitian's Regierung (1819): — De Eusebii Auctoritate et Fide (1815). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:573, 575, 892. (B.P.)