Varen, August

Varen, August a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born. Sept. 20, 1620, at Uelzen, and died as doctor and. Professor of theology at Rostock, March 15, 1684. He wrote, Lectio Academica de Targum; Onkelosi, Jonathanis, et eo quod Exstat in Hagiographis (Rost. 1644): — Disputatio de Targumim (ibid. eod.). Exegesis Aug. Confess. (ibid. eod.): — Disputatio de Messia (ibid. 1667): — Examen Decem Characterum Messiae contra Abarbanelem. (ibid. eod.). See Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 468; Winer, Handb. der. theol. Lit. 1; 339. (B. P.)