Kuffer, Johann Ernst Rudolf

Kuffer, Johann Ernst Rudolf a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1793, at Reichenbach, in Upper Lusatia. In 1820 he was con-rector at Bautzen, Saxony, in 1824 professor at Grimma, in 1830 second court-preacher and member of consistory at Dresdef, and died September 10, 1865, doctor of theology. He published, besides a number of sermons, Examinatio Novissima Bretschneideri de loco Romans 5:12 (Dresden, 1834): — De Biblica ζωῆς αἰωνίου Notione (ibid. 1838): — Handbuch fur den Religionsunterricht hoherera Volksschulen (ibid. 1849): — Ueberblick der Geschichte der christlichen Kirche (ibid. 1857): — Biblische Studien (1842-46, 4 volumes). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:258; 2:107, 234; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 1:654 sq. (B.P.)