Rathlef, Ernst Ludwig

Rathlef, Ernst Ludwig a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in 1709, and died April 19, 1768, superintendent at Nienburg, in the county of Hoya. He wrote, De Simular Nebucadnezaris Aureo, ad Daniel 3:1 (Helmstadt, 1730): — De Corpore Mosis ad Epist. Judae 8 (Hanover, 1733): — De Maccabaeis Saccorum Antiqui Foederis Librorum Exulibus (1739): — Historia Autographorum Apostolicorum (1752), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:78, 416, 432, 567; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:133 sq. (B.P.)