Schottgen, Christian

Schottgen, Christian a Lutheran theologian and philologist of Germany, was born at Wurzen, Saxony, March 14, 1687. He studied at Leipsic, was in 1716 rector at Frankfort-on-the-Oder in 1719 at Stargard, Pomerania, in 1728 at Dresden, and died December 15, 1751. He is best known as the author of, Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae in Universum Novum Testamentum (Dresden, 1733): — Horae Hebraice et Talmudicae in Theologiam Judaeorum Dogmaticam Antiquam et Orthodoxam de Messia Impensae (1742): — Novum Lexicon Greico-Latinum in Novum Testamentum (Leipsic, 1746; new ed. by Krebs, 1765, and Spohr, 1790). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Meusel, Lexicon der von 1750-1800 verstorbenen deutschen Schriftsteller, 12:382 sq.; Plitt- Herzogi Real-Encyklop. s.v. (B.P.).