Hermann, Johann Gottfried

Hermann, Johann Gottfried a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in Saxony, October 12, 1707. He studied at Leipsic, was in 1733 deacon, received a call in 1738 to Amsterdam as pastor of the German congregation, but accepted the appointment as superintendent at Plauen. In 1746 he was called to Dresden as court-preacher and member of consistory, and died July 30, 1791. He published, De Pane Azymo et Fermentato in Coena Domini (Leipsic, 1739), besides a number of sermons. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:603. (B.P.)