Schmidt, Woldemar Cottlob

D.D. (hon., Gottingen, 187-), Protestant theologian; b. at St. Afra in Mei en, Saxony, June 2, 1836; studied at Leipzig and Gottingen, 1854-57; was "teacher of religion " at Plauen, Zwickau, and St. Afra gymnasiums, 1858-66; became profe or extraordinaiy at Leipzig 1866, and ordinary profe or 1876. He is the author of Der Lehrgehalt des Jakobusbriefes, Leipzig, 1869; Der Bericht der Apostelgeschichte iiber Stephanies (Program), 1882 articles and reviews in Jahrbucher fiir deutsche Theologie, 1866 sqq.; book-notices in Harnack and Schiirer's Theolog. Lit-Zeitung, 1876 sqq.; articles " Hermeneutik," "Kanon d. N. T.," "Paulus," etc., in the 2d ed. of Herzog's Real Encyklopddie editor of 5th ed. Meyer's Commentary on Ephesians, Gottingen, 1878.