Nicolai, Otto Nathanael

Nicolai, Otto Nathanael a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born April 5, 1710. He studied at Leipsic, was in 1738 deacon at Naumburg, in 1742 at Magdeburg, and died in 1788, doctor of theology. He wrote, De Ossibus Regis Edom Combustis (Leipsic, 1733): — Schediasma Philologicum de Angelo Israelitarum per Desertum Duae (1734): — Meletema Exegeticun de Prophetarum Veterum Judaicorum Vestitu (Magdeburg, 1746): — De Vinea Dei Satis Quidena Culta (Helmstadt, 1747): — De Terroribus Hiskiae in Faucibus Mortis (1749): — De Servis Josephi Medicis (1752): — De Gratia Dei Privativa (1760). See Furst, Bibl. Ju. 3:32; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)