Vilmar, August Friedrich Christian

Vilmar, August Friedrich Christian a German doctor and professor of theology, was born Nov. 21,1800, at Stolz, in Kur-Hesse. He studied theology and philology at Marburg, and for a number of years he was professor at the Marburg Gymnasium. In 1850 he was called as member of consistory to Cassel, and here he was one of the main supporters of the Hassenpflug regime. After the fall of the latter in 1855, Vilmar became professor of theology at Marburg, and lectured mainly on dogmatics, practical exegesis, and pastoral theology. He died July 30, 1868. We cannot enter here fully into the Church history of Hesse, with which Vilmar became connected under the Hassenpflug administration. Of his writings we mention, De Genitivi Casus Syntaxi quam Prebeat Harmonia Evangeliorum, Saxonica Dialecto Scecula IX Conscripta, Commentatio (Marburg, 1834): — Die Theologie der Thatsachen wider die Theologie der Rhetorik (ibid. 1854; 3d ed. 1857): — Spicilegium Hymnologicum (ibid. eod.): — Geschichte des Confessionsstandes der evangel. Kirche in Hessen, etc. (ibid. 1860):. — Deutsche Alterthümer im Heliand als Einkleidung der evangelischen Geschichte (ibid. 1862): Die hessische Kirchenordnung von 1657 in ihrem Zusammenhange und ihrer Bedeutung fiir die Gegenwart (Frankfort, 1867). After his death were published, Die augsb. Confession erklairt, ed. Piderit (Gütersloh, 1870): — Die Lehre oom geistl. Amte (Marburg, 1870): — Theologische Mooral, ed. Israel (Gütersloh, 1871,3 vols.): Von der christl. Kirchenzucht (Marburg, 1872): — Lehrbuch der Pastoraltheologie, ed. Piderit (Gütersloh, 1872): — Dogmatik (ibid. 1874- 75, 2 vols.): — Predigten u. geistliche Reden (Marburg, 1876): — Collegiuum Biblicum. Praktische Erkldrung der heiligen Schrift des A Iten u. Nreuen Testaments, ed. Chr. Muiller (Gütersloh, 1879, vol. 1). See Vilmar's autobiography in Strieder's Grundlage einer hessischen

Gelehrten-Geschichte (Cassel, 1863), 1, 119-140; Theolog. Universal- Lexikon, s.v. Zuchold, Bibl. Theolog. 2, 1391; Literarischer Handweiser für das kathol. Deutschland, 1868, p. 402; Schürer, Theolog. Literaturzeitung (Leipsic, 1876), p. 82, 252; 1880, p. 73 sq. (B. P.)