Scharbau, Heinrich

Scharbau, Heinrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Lubeck, May 25, 1689. He studied at Jena, Wittenberg, and Leipsic, was in 1715 preacher at his nlative place, and died February 2, 1759. He wrote, De Creophagia Ante Diluvium Licita (Jena, 1709): — De Fatis Studii Moralis apud Ebraeos (Leipsic, 1712): — Exercitatio Philol. de Serpentis AEnei Significatione Mystica (Lubeck, 1713): — De Caipha ejusque Vaticinio ex John 11:49, 50, 51 (1715): — Judaismus Detectus (1722): — Parerya Philologico- theologica (1719-26, 5 parts): — Observationes Sacrae etc. (1731-37, 3 parts): — besides contributing to the Bibliotheca Lubecensis. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. s.v. (B.P.)