Mitternacht, Johann Sebastian

a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Hardesleben, in Thuringia, March 30, 1613. He studied at Jena and Wittenberg, and was in 1638

pastor at Teutleben, Thuringia. In 1642 he was rector at Naumburg, in 1646 at Gera, and died February 25, 1679. He wrote, Gramnmatica Ebraea: — De Nativitatis Domini Anno, Mense ac Die: — Nota Philologicae, Theologicae, Chronologicae et Historicae in Fabricii Historiam Sacram: — De Abrahami Nomine et Patria Ur: — De Tempore et loco Effusionis Spiritus Sancti ad Actor. 2:1. — Explicatio Philologica Dicti ex Proverbs 22:15: — Διάσκεψις Philologica Jobi 23:11, 12: — Item in Loacum ad Hebraceos cap. 13:7. See Witte, Diarium; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)