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temple (the name for the houses of worship of Eeformed Jews), and \vho used a German liturgy and introduced an organ. ]\Iay 9, 1840, he resigned his pastoral office, but the superintendence of the Jewish schools he held until 1848, when his advanced age obliged him to fore- "•o all active labors. His admirers presented him with a large fiuid for Ins support, Ijut he declined to use it for j himself, and founded the " Eduard Ivley Stiftung" for the support and assistance of old teachers not sulti^dt- ly provided for by the state. He died Oct. 4, 1867. His ! sermons, which are generally acknowledged to be of su- perior order, were published at Hamburg in 1826-'27, 1844, 8vo. He also published two volumes of homilies : ! Predir/t Skizzen, or Beitraije zii einer Iciinftigen Ilomiledk 1 (Leipz. 1856, 2 vols. 8vo), and Die deutsche Synafjogm oder UrdnuMj des Gottesdimstes (Berlin, 1817-18, 2 vols. 8vo) : — '■'I T^^i:}, Katechismus d. Mosaischen Eelir/ioiis- khre (Berl. 1814 ; 3d ed. Leipz 1839 and 1850). Kley is often and justly called the Schleiermacher of the Jewish pulpit of Germany in our age. See Jost, Gesch. d. Ju- (kuthums It. s.Sekten,'ni,3o6; Kayserling (DT.M.),Bib- liothek Jiid. Kanzelrediier (Berl. 1870, 8vo), i, 47 sq. ; II- lustrirles Monatsheftf. d. gesammten Int. d. Judenthums, ii, 419 sq. ; Jonas, LebenssUzze v. Herrn Dr. E. Klerj (Ham- burg, 1859, 12mo) ; Furst, Bih. Jud. s. v. (J. H. W.)
Kling, Chi:istian Fiiiedrich, a German theologian, was born at Altdorf, in Wlirtemberg, Nov. 4, 1800, and was educated at the University of Tiibingen, where he became " repetent" in 1824. Two years later he entered the ministry, and settled at AYaiblingcn until 1832, when he removed to Marburg as professor of theology. In 1840 he was appointed to and accepted a like position at Bonn University, which he held until 1847 ; then be- came preacher at Ebersbach, in Wurtcmberg ; later dea- con at Marbach, and died in 18G1. Kling was a ready writer, and contributed largely to the difterent (Jerman periodicals; he was one of the ablest assistants on the Theolorjische Studien uml Kritiken. He edited J. F. von Flatt's Vorlesungen iiber die Pastorcd Briefe (1831), and contributed a Commentcmj to the Corinthians to Lange's Bibelicerk (translated by Daniel W. Poor, D.D., Scrib- ner's edit. New York, 1871, royal 8vo).
Klinge, Zaciiarias Laurentius, a Swedish theo- logian who flourished about the middle of the 17th cen- tury, was first professor of theology at Dorpat, then preacher at the Swedish court, and later pastor at Stock- holm and bishop of Gothenburg. He died Sept. 3, 1671. He wrote Theutnim BiMicum, etc. See A Ugemeines Hist. Lexikon, iii, 38.
Klingler, Antonius, a German Reformed theolo- gian, was born at Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 2, 1649 ; was educated at several of the most celebrated German uni- versities ; and became doctor theologia; in 1677, and pro- fessor at the gymnasium at Hanau in the same year. In 1680 he was offered a professorship at the University of Groiiingen, but he declined this honor in favor of a pastorate in his native place. He died there in August, 1713. Klingler published several theological works, of ■which his best is Bella Jehovoe. See AUgemeines Hist. Lexikon, iii, 38.
Klopstock, Friedricu Gottlieb, an eminent German ])oct, one of the forerunners of the great tier- man poetic renaissance of the 18th centurj- — '• the Ger- man ]Milton," as he is frequently styled — was born at (Juedlinburg, Saxony, July 2, 1724. He received his early education at the school of his native place, and when sixteen years of age was admitted to the (Jymna- sium at Naumburg, where he became acquainted with the style of the classical authors of his country. While here his private hours were devoted to compositions both in prose and verse, particularly to the writing of pastorals, which were in great voji;ue among the tier- mans, and it is said tliat even at that early period he had decided to write a poem of greater length than any that liad liitlicrto been attempted by his countrymen, and one that shoidd do honor to German literatiu-e,