Mayerhoff, Ernst Theodor

Mayerhoff, Ernst Theodor a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Neuruppin, December 5, 1806, and died at Berlin in December, 1837, licentiate and private lecturer in theology. He published, Die Petrinischen Schriften (Hamburg, 1835): — Johann Reuchlin und seine Zeit (Berlin, 1830): — Die Waldenser in unsern Tagen (ibid. 1834): — Ansgarius oder der Anfangspunkt des Christenthums in Schweden (ibid. 1837; transl. from the Swedish of H. Reuterdahl): — Der Brief an die Colosser (published after the author's death by L. Mayerhoff, ibid. 1838). See Winer, Bandbuch der theol. Lit. 1:91, 578, 833; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:863. (B.P.)