Hopfner, Johann Georg Christian

Hopfner, Johann Georg Christian a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born March 4, 1765, at Leipsic, and died there, December 20, 1827, doctor of theology and professor of philosophy. He wrote, In LXX Versionem Jonae Spec. 1-3 (Leipsic, 1787, 1788): — De Origine Dogmatis Rom.-Pontif. de Purgatorio Nonnulla (Halle, 1792): — Historia Tobiae (1802): — Ueber das Leben und die Verdienste des verewigten Morus (1793). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:407; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:51, 194, 300, 469, 865. (B.P.)