Gotten, Gabriel Wilhelm

Gotten, Gabriel Wilhelm a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 4, 1708, at Magdeburg. He studied at Halle, was in 1736 pastor at Celle, in 1741

superintendent at Luneburg, in 1746 at Hanover, and died in 1781. He published sermons and other ascetical writings. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:391; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)