Ernst Wilhelm Theodor Herrmann Hengstenberg, was a German Lutheran churchman and neo-Lutheran theologian from an old and important Dortmund family.
TheodoreBibliander was a Swiss orientalist, publisher, Protestant reformer and linguist. Born Theodor Buchmann in Bischofszell, he studied Latin under Oswald Myconius, and Greek and Hebrew under Jakob Ceporin, and attended lectures in Basel between 1525–7 given by Johannes Oecolampadius and Konrad Pelikan. He also became familiar with the Arabic language and other languages from the East; he became a professor of theology. He published a Hebrew grammar in 1535, and commentaries on the Bible. He published the first printed edition of the Qur'an in Latin, based on the medieval translation of Robert of Ketton. The edition included Doctrina Machumet, a translation of the Arabic theological tract known as the Book of a Thousand Questions. Considered the father of biblical exegesis in Switzerland, Bibliander became involved in a doctrinal controversy with Pietro Martire Vermigli over predestination; he was removed from his theological professorship at the Carolinum academy in 1560. He died of the plague.
Johannes Bogerman was a Frisian Protestant divine.
The von Hurter family belonged to the Swiss nobility; in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries three of them were known for their conversions to Roman Catholicism, their ecclesiastical careers in Austria and their theological writings.
Gottlieb (Georg) Nathanael Bonwetsch was a Russian-born German Protestant theologian.
Otto Fridolinus Fritzsche also Otto Fridolin Fritzsche was a German Protestant theologian. He was born to a minister named Christian Friedrich Fritzsche (1776–1850).
Caspar René Gregory was an American-born German theologian.
Bertram Otto Bardenhewer was a German Catholic patrologist. His Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur is a standard work, re-issued in 2008. For Bardenhewer, a patrologist was not a literary historian of the Church Fathers, but a historian of dogmatic definitions.
Franz Joseph Dölger was a German Catholic theologian and church historian.
Ludwig Diestel was a German Protestant theologian born in Königsberg.
Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Baudissin was a German Protestant theologian who was a native of Sophienhof, near Kiel.
Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Höfling was a German Lutheran theologian born in Neudrossenfeld, Bavaria. He specialized in the field of liturgical science.
Gottfried Thomasius was a German Lutheran theologian. He was born in Egenhausen and he died in Erlangen.
Heinrich Ludwig Julius Heppe was a German Calvinist theologian and church historian.
Wilhelm Gass was a German theologian born in Breslau. He was the son of theologian Joachim Christian Gass (1766–1831).
Lambert Daneau was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian.
Johann Friedrich Flatt was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher born in Tübingen. His brother, Karl Christian Flatt (1772–1813), was also a theologian.
Friedrich Gogarten was a Lutheran theologian, co-founder of dialectical theology in Germany in the early 20th century. He was born in Dortmund.
Pierre Boquin was a French Reformed Theologian who played a critical role in the Reformation of the Electoral Palatinate.
August Harder was a German musician, composer and writer. He is known for the melody to Paul Gerhardt's sacred summer song "Geh aus, mein Herz, und suche Freud".
