Trinius, Johann Anton

Trinius, Johann Anton a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born October 6, 1722. He studied at Leipsic, Helmstadt, and Halle; was in 1748 assistant minister at Braunroda, in the county of Mansfeld, Saxony, and died at Eisleben, May 3, 1784. He published, Schediasmai Hiistoricum de Conjugiis Proselytorum Judaicorum (Helmstidlt, 1744): — Diatribe Historico- apologetica de Digamia Clericorum quibusdam Exosa (1746): — De

Pathopatridalgia Sanctorum (Rostock, 1752): — Theologisches Worterbuch (Leipsic, 1770), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:375, 500, 856. (B.P.)