Wolle, Christoph

Wolle, Christoph a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born January 24, 1700, at Leipsic, where he also prosecuted his theological, philosophical, and Oriental studies. On presenting and defending his dissertation, De Facultatibus Intellectualibus in Bonos Habitus Mutandis, he was allowed to lecture as private docent. In 1746 he was made doctor of divinity, and two years later was appointed to the chair of theology. He opened his lectures with a discourse, In Anton. Collinum de Christiana Religione ut ab Ipso Christo et Ejus Discipulis Tradita est, Nulli rei Minus quam Piis Fraudibus Favente. He died July 6, 1761. Of his many writings we mention, Diss. Philol. Sacra de Regulis xxx Hermeneuticis, ad Circumspectam Scripturae Sacrae Illustrationemn, etc. (Leipsic, 1722): — Diss. de Mysteriis Orationis ad Mysteria Revelationis Paedagogicis (ibid. eod.): — Diss. Regulae Herameneuticae περί τῆς ἐσοδυναμίας sive συγονυμίας Usu et Abusu (ibid. 1723): — Diss. de Dictis Novi Testamenti Quatuor ab Interpunctionibus Novis Vindicatis (ibid. 1725): — Die Ruhe der Seelen, das hochste Gut in diesem Leben, oder kurze Auslegung des Predigers Salomo. etc. (ibid. 1729): — Diss. de Singulari Facto et Fato Lothi, ad Genes. 26:26 (ibid. 1730, 1749): — Diss. de Parallelismo Novi Testamenti Verbali cum 80 Virali Caute Instituendo (ibid. 1731), etc. See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 4:755 sq.; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 3:534 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:110, 111, 115, 126, 129, 159, 163, 629. (B.P.)