Lange, Johann Lobegott Ferdinand

Lange, Johann Lobegott Ferdinand a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born September 26, 1798. He commenced his academical career in 1824, was professor of philosophy in 1828, in 1838 doctor and professor of theology at Jena, and died in 1855. He wrote, Beitrage zur altesten Kirchengeschichte (Leipsic, 1828, 1831, 2 volumes): — Der Glaube an Jesus Christus den Weltheiland (1830): — Die Kindertaufe in der evangelischen Kirche (Jena, 1834): — Anleitung zum Studium der christlichen Theologie (1841): — Tabellen der Kirchen- und Dogmen-Geschichte (2d ed. 1848): — Der Protestantismus in kirchlicher und politischer Hinsicht (1844): — Lehrbuch der christlichen Kirchengeschichte (2d ed. 1845): — Exercitationes Exaninatorica ad Theologianm Dogmaticam et Historiam Dogmatum Spectans (Leipsic, 1846): Geschichte des Protestantismus (Elberfeld, 1847). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:301, 367,,434, 451, 548; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:767. (B.P.)