Koster, Friedrich Burchard

Koster, Friedrich Burchard a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born in 1791 at Loccum, and studied at Gottingen. In 1822 he went to Kiel as professor of theology, was appointed in 1840 general superintendent of the duchies of Bremen and Verden, resigned his position in 1860 on account of feeble health, and died at Stade, December 16, 1878. Of his works we mention, Das Buch Hiob und der Predigear Salonmo's ubersetzt (Schleswig, 1832): — De Fidei Modestia Nostris Temporibus Maximopere Commendanda (Kiel, eod.): — Er luterungen der heiligen Schrift aus den Klassikern besonders aus Homer (1833): — Die Psalaen ubersetzt (Konigsberg, 1837): — Die Propheten des Alten und Neuen Testaments dargestellt (Leipsic, 1838): — Die biblische Lehre von der Versuchung (Gotha, 1859). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:722; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:83, 205, 280, 361, 370, 392, 445, 489, 599; 2:31; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 2:206. (B.P.)