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See also:LAURENTIUS, See also:PAUL (1554-1624) , Lutheran divine, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:March 1554 at Ober Wierau, where his See also:father, of the same names, was pastor. From a school at See also:Zwickau he entered (1573) the university of See also:Leipzig, graduating in 1577. In 1578 he became See also:rector of the 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 school at See also:Halberstadt; in 1583 he was appointed See also:town's preacher at See also:Plauen-See also:im-See also:Vogtland, and in 1586 See also:superintendent at Oelnitz. On the zoth of See also:October 1595 he took his doctorate in See also:theology at See also:Jena, his thesis on the Symbolum Athanasii (1597), gaining him similar honours at See also:Wittenberg and Leipzig. He was promoted (1605) to be pastor and superintendent at See also:Dresden, and transferred (1616) to the superintendence at See also:Meissen, where he died on the 24th of See also:February 1624. His See also:works consist chiefly of commentaries and expository discourses on prophetic books of the Old Testament, parts of the Psalter, the See also:Lord's See also:Prayer and the See also:history of the See also:Passion. In two orations he compared See also:Luther to See also:Elijah. Besides theological works he was the author of a Spicilegium Gnomonologicum (1612).
The See also:main authority is C. See also:Schlegel, the historian of the Dresden superintendents (1698), summarized by H. W. Rotermund, in the additions (181o) to Jocher, Gelehrten-See also:Lexicon (175o). (A.
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