Walther, Michel (1)

a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Nuremberg, April 6, 1593. He studied, at first, medicine at Wittenberg; but afterwards he betook himself to the study of theology at Giessen and Jena. In the latter place he was appointed adjunct to the philosophical faculty. For a time he acted as court-preacher to the duchess of Brunswick and Lineburg, occupying at the same time a professorship at Helmstatdt. After the death of the duchess in 1626, he was appointed court-preacher and general superintendent at East-Friesland; in 1642 he-was called to Zelle, where he died, Feb. 9, 1662. He wrote, Harmonia Biblica: — Post'lla Mosaicca. Pophetica, liero- psalticua, Evangelistica: Comsm. in Epist. ad Hebraeos: — Introitus ad Psalterii Sacrarium: — Spicilegium Controversiarumu de Nominibus Jehovah, Elohim Agnus est Phase Tractatus de Unctione Christi. etc. See Freher, Theatrum Eruditorum; Hoffmann, Lexicon Universale; Acta Enkruditorum Latina; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexikon, s.v. (B. P.)