Marperger, Bernhard Walther

Marperger, Bernhard Walther a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hamburg, May 14, 1682. He studied at Altdorf and other universities, was in 1705 preacher at Nuremberg, in 1724 court-preacher at Dresden, and died March 29, 1746, a doctor of divinity. He wrote, Auslegung der ersten Epistel Johannis (Nuremberg, 1710): — Diss. Inauguralis de Nexu Veritatis cum Pietate (Altdorf, 1724; Germ. transl. by Graff, Leipsic, eod.): — De Agno ad Arcm Cornua Ligando, ad Illustr. Psalm 98:8 (Dresden, 1734), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:341; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)