Jan, Johann Wilhelm

Jan, Johann Wilhelm a Lutheran theologian, was born November 9, 1681. He studied at Wittenberg, was in 1713 professor of elocution, in 1714 of history, in 1719 doctor and professor of theology, and died August 27, 1725. He wrote, Judicia Eruditorum de Origine Electorum: — Historica Erae Christianae: — De Censu Romanorum Primo: — De Articulis Suobacensibus Augustance Confessionis Fundamento: — De Liturgiis Orientalibus in Doctrina de S. Eucharistia, etc. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:611. (B.P.)