Melos, Johann Georg

a Lutheran theologian, was born August 24, 1770, at Grossenmonnra, near Merseburg, and died at Weimar, February 16, 1828, professor at the seminary. He published, Biblische Geschichten-des Alten indu Neuen Testaments (Weimar, 1820): — Geschichte der Refornmation fur Burger- und Landschulen (5th ed. edited by Rothe, Berlin, 1837): — Beschreibung des judischen Landes zur Zeit Jesu. (Weimar, 1822; 2d ed. 1830): — Geist des Christenthunns (1824). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:254, 262, 309, 318; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:869; First, Bibl. Jud. 2:351. (B.P.)