Wernsdorf, Gottlieb (2)

a Protestant theologian of Germany, son of the preceding, was born Aug. 8, 1717, at Wittenberg, and became doctor of philosophy and teacher of sacred literature, eloquence, and history in the gymnasium at Dantzic, of which he was eventually director. He died January 24, 1774. He is the author of, Diss. Philologico-critica qua Sententia Jo. Clerici de Arte Poetica Ebrceorum Proponitur et Illustratur (Dantzic, 1744): — Oratio Auspicatoria de Cognatione Spartanorum et Judaeorum ac praecipue de Epistola Arii Regis ad Oniam Pontificem, ad Elucidandun Locum 1 Macc. Cap. 22 (ibid. eod.): — Diss. de Cultu Astrorum a Deo Gentibus Profanis olim Concesso, ad Deuteronomy 4:19, 20 (ibid. 1746): — Abhandlung von der allgemeiner Bekehrunq der Juden zum Christenthum (ibid. 1748): —Diss. Fabularis Historia de Baccho ex Mosaica haud Conficta, contra Huetium Aliosque (ibid. 1753): — Commentatio de Fide Librorum Maccabaeorum qua Fraehlichii Annales Syriae eorumque Prolegonena ex Instituto Examinantunr, etc. (Breslau, 1747). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:9; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:505, where some works are mentioned which belong to Gottlieb Wernsdorf; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)