Kripner, Samuel

Kripner, Samuel a German divine of some note, was born at Schwabelwald, in the duchy of Baireuth, March 31, 1695; entered Jena University in 1716, and in 1727 was appointed professor of Greek and the Oriental languages at the gymnasium in Baireuth. He died Oct. 15, 1742. For a list of his writings, mainly dissertations, see Doring, Gelehrte Theol. Deutschlands, ii 210 sq.