Bucholtzer, Abraham

Bucholtzer, Abraham a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born at Schonau, in Saxony, September 28, 1529. He studied at Frankfort and Wittenberg, was in 1556 rector at Grunberg, in Silesia, and then pastor at Sprottau, Crossen, and Freystadt. He died June 14, 1584. He wrote, Isagoge Chronologica ab Initio Mundi ad Exiliun Israelitarum in Babylone: — De Annorum serie in Sacris Bibliis: — De Idea boni Pastoris. See Adam, Vita Eruditorum; Freheri Theatrum Eruditorum; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)