Masius, Hector Gottfried

Masius, Hector Gottfried a Lutheran theologian, was born April 13, 1653. He studied at different universities, went to France in 1682 as chaplain to the Danish embassy, and was made in 1685 doctor and professor of theology at Copenhagen. He died September 20, 1709, leaving, Defense de la Religion Lutherienne: — Bericht von denm Unterschied der lutherischen and reformirten Lehre: — De Profanatione Hostiae Consecratae: — De Pallio Pauli: — Schediasmata Tria Sacra, Scilicet 1, De Contemtut Concilii Tridentini; 2, De Polynathia Scriptorum Sacrorum; 3, De θηριομαχίᾷ Pauli. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:345, 353. (B.P.)