KORTHOLT, CHRISTIAN (+) WANDAL, HANS.
Pastor fidelis, sive de officio ministrorum ecclesiae opusculum (+) Kurtzer und Wohlgemeinter Unterricht von der Calvinischen Lehre...
Hamburg, Liebernickel, 1696 (+) Frankfurt & Leipzig, Melchior, 1697.
8vo. In contemporary full calf with four raised bands and embossed ornamentation to spine. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Light wear to extremities. A heart with "C. Finde, 1711" in the center in contemporary hand to front free end-paper. Previous owner's name to title-page. Title-page with marginal browning, but generally internally nice and clean. (20), 356 [i.e. 256], (24), 721, (54) pp.
Rare first edition of Kortholt’s posthumously published work responsibilities and duties of church ministers, providing guidance on pastoral care and ecclesiastical conduct Christian Kortholt “an eminent Lutheran Church historian, was born at Burg, in the island of Femern, Denmark, Jan. 15th, 1632. His studies, commenced at Schleswig, were continued in the universities of Rostock, Jena, Leipsic, and Wittenberg. In 1662 he became professor of Greek at Rostock, where he was made D.D. He was afterwards called to the professorship of theology at Kiel by the duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and in 1666 became vice- chancellor of that university. He died March 31 (or April 1st), 1694.”( McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia). Thesaurus 703 - Kurtzer und Wohlgemeinter.
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