Lange, Samuel Gottlieb

Lange, Samuel Gottlieb a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born April 5, 1767, at Ohra, near Dantzic. He studied at Jena, and commenced his theological career there in 1795. In 1798 he was called to Rostock as professor, was in 1799 doctor of theology, and died June 15, 1823. He wrote, Versuch einer Apologie der Offenbarung (Jena, 1794): — Die Schriften Johannis ubersetzt und erkldrt (1795): — Diss. Historico-Critica I et II de Justini Martyris Apologia pro Christianis ad Antoninum Pium (eod.): — Ausfurliche Geschichte der Dogmen der christl. Kirche (Leipsic, 1796): — System der theologischen Moral (1803): — Versio Germanica Epistolce Pauli ad Romanos (1820-21). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:238, 367, 592, 897. (B.P)