Rambach, Johann Jacob

Rambach, Johann Jacob a Lutheran theologian, was born March 7, 1737. He studied at Halle, was in 1760 rector at Magdeburg, in 1765 at Quedlinburg, in 1774 first preacher there, in 1786 pastor at Hamburg, and died August 6, 1818. He wrote, De Adiaphoris in Utronze Sacramento Obviis (Halle, 1758): — De Actionibus Prophetaum Symbolicis (Magdeburg, 1760), besides a number of sermons. See Diring, Die deutschen Kanzelredner, pages 306-315 (B.P.)