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See also:EBERHARD, JOHANN See also:AUGUSTUS (1739-1809) , See also:German theologian and philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Halberstadt in See also:Lower See also:Saxony, where his See also:father was singing-See also:master at the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin's, and teacher of the school of the same name. He studied See also:theology at the university of See also:Halle, and became See also:tutor to the eldest son of the See also:baron von der See also:Horst, to whose See also:family he attached himself for a number of years. In 1763 he was appointed See also:con-See also:rector of the school of St Martin's, and second preacher in the See also:hospital church of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost; but he soonafterwards resigned these offices and followed his See also:patron to See also:Berlin. There he met See also:Nicolai and See also:Moses Mendelssohn, with whom he formed a dose friendship. In 1768 he became preacher or See also:chaplain to the workhouse at Berlin and the neighbouring fishing See also:village of Stralow. Here he wrote his Neue Apologie See also:des See also:Socrates (1772), a See also:work occasioned by an attack on the fifteenth See also:chapter of See also:Marmontel's See also:Belisarius made by See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Hofstede, a clergyman of See also:Rotterdam, who maintained the patristic view that the virtues of the noblest pagans were only splendida peccata. Eberhard stated the arguments for the broader view with dignity, acuteness and learning, but the liberality of the reasoning gave See also:great offence to the strictly orthodox divines, and is believed to have obstructed his preferment in the church.
In 1774 he was appointed to the living of See also:Charlottenburg. A second See also:volume of his Apologie appeared in 1778. In this he not only endeavoured to obviate some objections which were taken to the former See also:part, but continued his inquiries into the doctrines of the See also:Christian See also:religion, religious See also:toleration and the proper rules for interpreting the Scriptures. In 1778 he accepted the professorship of See also:philosophy at Halle. As an academical teacher, however, he was unsuccessful. His See also:powers as an See also:original thinker were not equal to his learning and his See also:literary gifts, as was shown in his opposition to the philosophy of See also:Kant. In 1786 he was admitted a member of the Berlin See also:Academy of Sciences; in 18o5 the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Prussia conferred upon him the honorary See also:title of a privy-councillor. In 18o8 he obtained the degree of See also:doctor in divinity, which was given him as a See also:reward for his theological writings. He died on the 6th of See also:January 1809. He was master of the learned See also:languages, spoke and wrote See also:French with facility and correctness, and understood See also:English, See also:Italian and Dutch. He possessed a just and discriminating See also:taste for the See also:fine arts, and was a great See also:lover of See also:music.
See also:Works :—Neue Apologie des Socrates, &c. (2 vols., 1772-1778); Allgemeine Theorie des Denkens and Empfindens, &c. (Berlin, 1776), an See also:essay which gained the See also:prize assigned by the Royal Society of Berlin for that See also:year; Von dem Begriff der Philosophic and ihren Theilen (Berlin, 1778)—a See also:short essay, in which he announced the See also:plan of his lectures on being appointed to the professorship at Halle; Lobschrift auf Herrn Johann Thunmann Prof. der Weltweisheit and Beredsamkeit auf der Universitat zu Halle (Halle, 1779) ; Amyntor, eine Geschichte in Briefen (Berlin, 1782)—written with the view of counteracting the See also:influence of those sceptical and Epicurean principles in religion and morals then so prevalent in See also:France, and rapidly spreading amongst the higher ranks in See also:Germany; Uber See also:die Zeichen der Aufklarung einer Nation, &c. (Halle, 1783) ; Theorie der schonen Kiinste and Wissenschaften, &c. (Halle, 1783, 3rd ed. 1790) ; Vermischte Schri{ten (Halle, 1784) ; Neue vermischte Schrifien (ib. 1786) ; Allgemeine Geschichte der Philosophic, &c. (Halle, 1788), and ed. with a continuation and See also:chronological tables (1796); Versuch einer allgemeinen-deutschen Synonymik (Halle and See also:Leipzig, 1795-1802, 6 vols., 4th ed. 1852–1853), See also:long reckoned the best work on the synonyms of the German See also:language (an abridgment of it was published by the author in one large volume, Halle, 1802) ; Handbuch der Aesthetik (Halle, 1803-1805, and ed. 1807-1820). He also edited the Philosophisches Magazin (1788-1792) and the Philosophisches Archiv (1792-1795).
See F. Nicolai,Gedachtnisschrift auf J.A.Eberhard (Berlin and See also:Stettin, 181o) ; also K. H. JOrdens, See also:Lexicon deutscher Dichter and Prosaisten.
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