Klein, Priedrich August

Klein, Priedrich August a German theologian, was born at Friedrichshaide, near Ronneburg, Nov. 7, 1793; entered the University of Jena in 1811, and became a minister at Jena in 1819; but only two years later he was suddenly taken ill, and died Feb. 12, 1823, having a year before his death received the honorable appointment of professor of theology at the university. Klein published in 1817 Vertraute Briefe i. Christenthum u. Protestantismus, and in 1817 began with Schroter the publication of the theological journal Fiir Christenthulm und Gottesgelahrtheit. Of his other publications the following deserve our notice: Beredsamnkeit des Geistlichen (1818, 8vo): — Grundlinien des Religiosismnus (1819, small 8vo): — Dogmatik d. evamgel. protest. Kirche (1822, 8vo). See Doring, Gelehrte Theologen Deutschlands, ii, 108 sq. (J. H. W.)