Schroder, Johann Wilhelm

Schroder, Johann Wilhelm a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Marburg, June 15, 1726, and studied at the university in his native place. In 1755 he succeeded his father as professor of Oriental languages and Hebrew antiquities, and died March 8, 1793. He published, De Sanctitate in Genere et Quibusdam ejus Speciebus, Praecipue de Sanctitate Dei (Marburg, 1750): — Commentarius Philologicus in Psalmum 10 (Groningen, 1754): — In Causas Quare Dictio Pure Graeca in Novo Testamento Plerumque Praetermissa sit (1768): — In Difficiliora Quaedam Psalmorum Loca Fasciculus (1781). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)