Wald, Samuel Gottlieb

Wald, Samuel Gottlieb a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Breslau, Oct. 17, 1762, He studied at Halle and Leipsic. In the latter place he received the degree of master on presenting a dissertation Cur arum in Historiam-Textus Vaticinorum Danielis Specimen Primum, and was thus entitled to lecture publicly. Being a pupil of Semler, Wald followed the master in the grammatico-historical interpretation of the Scriptures. In 1786 he was called as professor of Greek to Konigsberg, and in 1793 the University of Erlangen made him doctor of theology on presenting £ dissertation De Vita, Scriptis et Systemate Mystico Sebastiani Franci. For more than twenty years, Wall labored as teacher and preacher in Konigsberg, and died Feb. 22, 1828. He published, Progr. Spicilegiumn Variarum Lectionum Codd. IV Veteris Testamenti febr. Vratislaviensium (Lips. 1784): — M. A. Flaminii in Librum Psalnorum Brevis Explanatio.. Curavit et Prcefatus est (Halae, 1785): — Progr. Controversio de Bonorum Operum Necessitate inter Musculum et Praetorium Agitata (Lips. 1786): — Theologice Symbolicae Lutheranae Descriptio (Halae, cod.): — De Vituperio Neologorum (Regiom. 1787): — Diss. de Vera Vi Vocabulorum νόμος et πίστις in Epistola Pauli ad Romanos (ibid. 1788), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:647 sq.; Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3, 491. (B. P.)

 
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