Scheele, Knut Henning Gezelius

von, D.D. (Upsala, 1877), Luther an; b. in Stockholm, Sweden, May 31, 1838; graduated at Upsala; became privat-docent, 1865; provost, 1877; ordinary member of consistory, 1878; profe or, 1879, and inspector of the teachers' seminary (1880), and censor of the demi ion examinations in the Swedish upper schools (1884); in 1885 appointed bishop of Visby. He was member of the House of Nobility in the Swedish parliament, 1865-66 president of the General Seminary Meeting in Stockholm, 1880 and 1884; member of the Basel Alliance Conference, 1879, and reported on Scand in a via; also of the General Swedish Clergy Conferences in Stockholm, 1881 and 1884. He is the author in Swedish of The Ontological Evidence of the Existence of God, Upsala, 1863; The Preparations of the Theological Rationalism, 1868, 2d ed. Stockholm, 1877; The Church Catechising, Upsala, 1869, 4th ed. Stockholm, 1881; The Christmas Cycle of the Second Series of the New Evangelical Pericops (in the Swedish Church), Upsala, 1874 Theological Symbolic, 1877-79, 2 parts (German trans., Gotha, 1881); From the Court into the Sanctuary, Apologetic E ays, Stockholm, 1879 (Norwegian trans., Christiania, 1880); The Fight for the Peace, Apologetic E ays, 1881; Compendium of Theological Symbolic, Upsala, 1885; sermons, and review articles.