Oelreich, Bernhard

Oelreich, Bernhard a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Itzehoe in 1626. He studied at different universities, was in 1664 court-preacher at Stockholm, in 1665 doctor of theology, and in 1668 pro-chancellor and professor of theology of the academy at Lunden. He then went to Bremen as superintendent and pastor, and died March 30, 1686. He wrote, De Testamento Christi non Violando: — De Angelo: — De Sacra Scriptura: — De Ecclesia Lutherana. See Witte, Diariunm Biographicum; Moller, Cimbria Literata; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)