Lange, Johann Michael

Lange, Johann Michael a German Protestant theologian and philologist, was born at Etzelwangen, near Sulzbach, March 9, 1664. He became successively pastor of Hohenstrauss, Halle, Altdorf, and Prenzlow, where he died January 10, 1731. He wrote fifty-six different works (see the list in Rotermund, Lex. 3:1227), of which the principal are Aphorismi Theologici (Altdorf, 1687): — De Fabulis Mohamedicis (Altdorf, 1697, 4to): — Exercitatio Philologica de differentia linguae Graecorum veteris et novae seu barbaro-Graecae (2d edit. Altd. 1702): — Decas I disputatt. theolog. exegeticarum cum positivo polemicarum numero sacro (Altd. 1703, 4to): — De Alcorani prima inter Europaeos editione Arabica per Paganinum Brixiensem, sed jussu Pontif. Rome. abolita (Altdorf 1703): — De Alcorano Arabico et variis speciminibus atque novissimis successibus

doctorum quorumdam virorum in edendo Alcorano Arabico (Altdorf, 1704) — De Alcorazni versionibus variis, tam oriental. quam occidental, impressis et ἀνεκδόσεις (Altdorf, 1705): — Octo Dissertationes de Versione N.T. barbaro-Graeca (Altd. 1705): — Institutiones Pastorales (Nuremb. 1707): — Philologia barbaro-Graeca, etc. (Nuremb. 1707-8, 2 parts, 4to). See Zeltner, Vitae Theolog. (Altd.), pages 468-488; Will, Lexicon, 2:394-405, Rotermund (Suppl. z. Jocher; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, 29:391. (J.N.P.)