Walther, Heinrich Andreas

Walther, Heinrich Andreas a German Protestant clergyman, was born at Konigsberg, in Hesse; in 1696. He became minister at Worms in 1729, and of St. Catherine's, Frankfort-on-the-Main. In 1741 he was honored with the rank of senior of the Protestant clergy at Frankfort, and with the degree of doctor of theology by the faculty of Giessen. He died in 1748. Among his principal works are the following: Disputatio ex Antiquitate Orientali de Zabiis: Finsterniss bey dem vermeinten Lichte der rimisch-katholischen Lehre, gegenein von einem Jesuiten herausgegebenes Büchlein, genannt Licht in der Finsterniss: — Exegesis Epistolc Judce:nErste Gründe der Weisheit und Tugend: — and Erldauterter Katechismus.