Papst, Johann Georg Friedrich

Papst, Johann Georg Friedrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Ludwigstadt, Bayreuth, October 21, 1754. He studied at Leipsic and. Erlangen, was in 1783 professor of philosophy at the latter place, in 1794 dean at Zirndorf, near Nuremberg,. in 1818 doctor of theology, and died June 7, 1821. He wrote, De Authentia Copitis XXI Joannis (Erlangen,. 1779): — De Faustis Christiana Religionis Initiis (1786): Geschichte der christlichen Kirche (1787): — De Ipsorum Christianorum Culpa in Vexationibus Motis a Romanis (1789-90): — De Apostolicae Ecclesiae Exenmplo Caute Adhibendo (1790): — Commentar uber die Geschichte der christl. Kirche nach dem schrockh schen Lehrbuch (1792-1801). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:536, 591; 2:24; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)