Scharfenberg, Johann Gottfried

Scharfenberg, Johann Gottfried a Lutheran theologian. of Germany, was born at Leipsic, October 16, 1743, and died there, March 18, 1786, doctor and professor of philosophy. He is the author of, Prolusio de Josephi et Versionis Alexandrinae Consensu (Leipsic, 1780): — Fragmenta Versionum Graecarum Veteris

Testamenti in Monte-Falconio Collecta (part 1, 1776; 2, 1781): — Loci Nonnulli Danzielis, etc. (1774). Together with Vogel he edited Lud. Capelli Critica Sacra (1778-86, 3 volumes). See Furst, Bibl. Theol. s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:51, 93, 222. (B.P.)