Lechler, Gotthard Victor

Ph.D. (Tubingen, 1840), D.D. (hon., Gbttingen, 1858), German Luther an theologian; b. at Kloster Reichenbach, Wurtemberg, April 18, 1811; studied at Tubingen, 1829-34; became diakonus at Waiblingen, Wiirtemberg, 1841; dec an and city pastor at Knittlingen, Wurtemberg, 1853; pastor of St. Thomas's and superintendent at Leipzig, 1858; emeritus, 1883; has been since 1858 profe or of theology in the University of Leipzig, and since 1880 Geheimer Kirchenrath. He is the author of Geschichte des Englischen Deismus, Stuttgart, 1841; Das apos to lis che und das nach apos to lis che Zeitalter, Mit Riicksicht auf Unterschied und Einheit in Lehre und Leben dargestellt (the Teyler prize e ay), Haarlem, 1851 (3d ed., thoroughly revised and re-written, Karlsruhe and Leipzig, 1885; Eng. trans., The Apostolic and Post-apostolic Times: their Diversity and Unity in Life and Doctrine, Edinburgh, 1886); Geschichte der Presbylerialund Synodal ver fas sung seit der Reformation (crowned by The Hague Society), Leiden, 1854; De Thoma Brad ward i no, Leipzig, 1862 (pp. 19); Robert Gro eleste, bischof von Lincoln, 1867; Der Kirchenslaat und die Opposition gegen den pdpstlichen Absolutism us im Anfange des II),. Jahrhunderts, 1870; Johann von Wiclif und die Vorgeschichte der Reformation, 1 873, 2 vols. (Eng. trans, of vol. i. by Principal Lorimer, John Wiclif and his English Precursors, London, 1878, 2 vols. in 1 vol. 1881; new ed. by Rev. Dr. S. G. Green, 1884, 1 vol.); contributor of commentary on Acts in Lange's Bibelwerk, Bielefeld, 1859, 4th ed. 1881 (Eng. trans by C. F. Schaeffer, D.D., in the American Lange series, N.Y., 1866); editor of Wiclif 's Traclatus de officio pastorali (Leipzig, 1863), Trialogus, and Supple mentum Trialogi sive de dot at i one eccleske (Oxford, 1869); and, with Dibelius, of Be it rage zur sdchsischen Kirclienqeschichte, Leipzig (part 1, 1882; part 2, 1883; part 3, 1885).