Dunkel, Johann Gottlob Wilhelm

Dunkel, Johann Gottlob Wilhelm a Reformed theologian of Germany, was born at Kothen, September 28, 1720. He studied at Halle, and received the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1739. In 1744 he was pastor at Diebzig, near Kothen, and in 1748 at Wulfen and Dronen, in the, county of Anhalt-Kothen. He died September 8, 1759, leaving, Historisch-kritische Nachrichten von verstorbenen Gelehrten (Kothen, 1753-60, 3 volumes): — Theod. Dassovii de Vacca Rufa Opusculum (Leipsic, 1758). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:347 sq. (B.P.)