Schmidt, Oswald Gottlob

Schmidt, Oswald Gottlob a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Kaditz, Saxony, January 2, 1821. He studied at Leipsic, was in 1845 pastor at Schontfeld, in 1856 at Greifenhain, and in 1866 at Werdau. Schmidt died December 26, 1882, doctor of theology. He published, Pericula Conjungendorum Ecclesiarum etc. (Grimma, 1844): — Die Lehre von der Rechtfertigung durch den Glauben (Leipsic, 1859): — Nicolaus Hausmann, der Freund Luther's (1860): — Caspar Cruciger und Georg der Gottselige (in Leben der- Altvater der lutherischen Kirche, 1861): — Petrus Mosellanus (1866): – — Blicke in die Kirchengeschichte der Stadt Meissen (1879). He also contributed to the Plitt-Herzog, Real Encyclop. s.v. (B.P.)