Kalkar, Christian Andreas Herman

Ph.D. (Kiel, 1833), D.D. (Copenhagen, 1836), Luther an; b. at Stockholm, Nov. 27, 1802; d. at Copenhagen, Feb. 2, 1886. His father was a Jewish rabbi. He went with the family to Ca el, Germany then in 1812, immediately after his father's death, to Copenhagen, in whose university he studied law; when converted to Christianity he studied theology in the same university. On March 27, 1827, he became adjunct in the cathedral school in Odense; and on Aug. 23 of the same year, head master. In 1842 he visited most of Western Europe; and on March 27, 1843, became pastor in Gladsaxe (six miles from Copenhagen) and Herliv; resigned, July 2, 1868. He received the gold medal of the Haager Society (see title in Encyclopaedia), 1840; was knight of the Danish Order (gold and silver cro es); member of the • Leiden Society of Literature, of the theological examining board of the University of Copenhagen (since 1871), of the Danish Bible Society; was president of the Danish Mi ionary Society (1860- 73), member of the royal commi ion to revise the Danish Bible (1866-74); president of the Danish branch of the Evangelical Alliance, and presided over the Copenhagen Conference (1884). He published in Danish a commentary on the Old Testament, Copenhagen, 1836-38, 2 vols.; a Bible history, Odense, 1836-39, 2 vols. (German trans., Kiel, 1839, 2 vols.; also in Dutch); documents of Danish Reformation's history, Copenhagen, 1845; a Danish version of the Bible, 1847, 3 vols, (with Helweg, Levensen, and Her man sen); a history of evangelical (1857) and of Roman-Catholic mi ions (1862; German trans, of both 1867, 2 vols.), and of mi ions among the Jews (1868, German trans.); a history of Christian mi ions (1879, 2 vols.; German trans., Giitersloh, 1879-81, 2 vols.); Israel and the Church, 1881; and The Activity of the Church among the Mohammedans, to the Fall of Constantinople, 1884. Cf. notice in Evangelical Christen dom (London) for March, 1886, pp. 92, 93.