Bertram, Johann Friedrich

Bertram, Johann Friedrich a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born Feb. 7, 1699, at Ulm. He. studied at Halle, and in 1729 was called as court-preacher, scholarch, and superintendent of the theological seminary at Aurich, in East Frisia. He died June 18, 1741. He was a pronounced enemy of philosophy in general. and of the doctrines of Wolf in particular, and engaged in long controversies, especially with Reinbeck. He published, Erlduterte und vertheidigte Ostfriesische Reformations- und Kirchengeschichte (Aurich, 1733):Historischer Beweis dass Ostfriesland zur Zeit der Reformation der evang. — lutherischen und nicht der reformirten Kirche beigetreten sei (Oldenburg, 1732 ): — Bescheidene Priufung der Meinung von der Praexistenz menschlicher Seelen in organischen Leibern (Bremen, 1741): — Commentatio de Singularibus Anglorum in. Eruditionem Orientalem A Meritis (with an Appendix, entitled De Vera Medii Aevi Barbarie, in the Miscellanea Lipsensia, vol. xi): — Parega Ostfrisica, quibus Continentur Dissertationes de Rerum in Ecclesia et Republica Frisice Orientalis Scriptoribus Gestarum (Brunswick, 1735.). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 430, 796; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B. P.)