Panzer, Georg Wolfgang

Panzer, Georg. Wolfgang a German theologian, was born at Sulzbach in 1729, and was educated at Altdorf, where he took his doctorate in philosophy in 1749. In 1751 he was made pastor at Etzelwang, near Nuremberg; in 1760, dean at St. Sebaldus, in Nuremberg; in 1772, senior preacher; in 1773, pastor. He died in 1804. Besides his Annales Typographici, he wrote a history of the German Bible, Literar. Nachrichten v. den allenrdltesten gedruckten Deutschen Bibeln (Nuremb. 1777): — Gesch. der Nurnberger Ausgabenz der Bibel, etc. (ibid. 1778): — Gesch. Der Augsburger Ausgaben (1780): — Die unverdnderte Augsburgische Confession (1785): — LiterarGesch. der luther.-deutschen Bibel.ibersetzung 1517-1581 (1783, 1791), etc. He also devoted himself to a careful editing of the Church hymn-books.