Liebner, Karl Theodor Albert

Liebner, Karl Theodor Albert a prominent Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Schkolen, ear Naumburg, March 3, 1806. He studied at Leipsic, Berlin, and Wittemberg, was in 1832 pastor at Kreisfeld, in Saxony, in 1835 professor at Gottingen, in 1851 at Leipsic, and in 1855 general superintendent and courtpreacher at Dresden. He died June 24, 1871, at Meran. Switzerland. Liebner is the author of, Hugo von St. Victor und die theologischen Richtungen seiner Zeit (Leipsic, 1832): — Die christliche Dogmatik aus dem christologischen Princip dargestellt (Gottingen, 1849): — Introductio in Dogmaticam Chsristianam (Leipsic, 1854). Besides, he published Predigten in der Universitats-Kirche gehalten (Gottingen, 1841; 2d ed. 1856): — Predigt-Beitrage zur Forderung der Erkenntniss Christi in der Genzeinde (1861), and contributed largely to the Jahrbucher fur deutsche Theologie. See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:794; Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v.; Plitt-Herzog, Real-Encyklop s.v. (B.P.)