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a Lutheran minister, was born November 19, 1797, at Lindow, in Brandenburg, Prussia. In 1823 he entered the missionary seminary at Berlin, and in 1825 the Hebrew College at London, to prepare himself as a missionary to promote the gospel among the Jews. He remained in England till 1827, when he was sent to the Rhenish provinces on a missionary journey. In the same year he was appointed to the mission-station at Posen, was ordained there in 1846, and died December 5, 1867. (B.P.)