Rechenberg, Adam

Rechenberg, Adam a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born September 7, 1642, at Leipsdorf, Saxony. He studied at Leipsic, where he began his academical career in 1666. In 1677 he was professor of languages, and in 1678 commenced his theological lectures. In 1699 he was doctor of theology, and died October 22, 1721. He published, Athensagorae Apologia pro Christianis (Leipsic, 1684): — Athenagorae Liber de Resurrectione Mortuorum (eod.): — Athenagorae Opera Greece et Latine cum Animadversionibus (1688): — Novum Testamentum Graecum cum Praefatione et Libris Parallelis (1691, 1702, 1709): — De Justitia Dei

Ultrice (1699): — Augustini Enchiridion ad Laurentium cum Praefatione de Studio Theologico (1705): — Exercitationes in Novum Testamentum, Historiam Ecclesiasticam et Literariam Varii Argumenti (1707; 2d ed. 1714): — Hierolexicon Reale, hoc est Biblio-Theologicum et Historico- Ecclesiasticum (1714): — De Theologiae et Philosophiae Pugna Apparmente (1717). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:321, 446, 533, 884, 903; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)