Zierold, Johann Wilhelm

Zierold, Johann Wilhelm a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born May 14, 1669, at Neustadt- oberWiesenthal, in Meissen. He studied at Leipsic, travelled extensively through Austria, Holland, and' England, was appointed, in 1696, pastor and professor of theology at the Groningen College in Stargard, received the doctorate of theology in 1698, and died September 1, 1731. He wrote, Analogismus Nominum et Rerum ex Psalm 1 (Stargard, 1701): — באר היטב oder deutliche Erlauterungen der heiligen Schrift (Leipsic, 1715): — Der Prediger Salomo aus der Bedeutung der Buchstaben (ibid. eod.): —

Der Prophet Obadja, etc. (ibid. eod.): — Der Prophet Joel, etc. (ibid. 1720). — See Hildebrand, Hirten nach dem Herzen Gottes zu Stargard; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:551. (B.P.)