Schirmer, August Gottlieb Ferdinand

Schirmer, August Gottlieb Ferdinand a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born in Silesia, May 14, 1791, and died in 1863 at Greifiswalde, doctor and professor of theology. He published, Observationes Exeg.-Criticae in Librum Esdrae (Breslau, 1820): — Die biblische Dogmatik, etc. (eod.): — Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Wirdigung des Supernaturalismus und Rationalismus (1818): — Die Anbetung Gottes im Geist und in der Wahrheit (Greifswalde, 1830), etc. See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:204, 292, 369; 2:104, 177; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. s.v. (B.P.)