Lampe, Fkiediuch Adoi.f, an eminent German Frotcstaut theologian, was born at Detmold (Lippe- Dctmold) Feb. 19, 1G83. He entered the University of Franeker, and later that of Utrecht, to study theology. He was successively pastor at Wees, Duisburg, and Bre- men. In 1720 he became professor of theology at Utrecht, and in 1727 removed to the University of Bre- men in the same capacity. He died December 8, 1729. Lampe is one of the most prominent German theolo- gians of the Reformed Church, who introduced into the (Jerman Church the Coccejanian doctrines, and measu- rably also the principles of Labadism. Lampe's principal worlds are, Commentarius analj/tico-exerjeticus Evangelii secundum Jofiannem {Amsterd. 1724-25, 3 vols. 4to) ; this work Orme commends as '• both extensive and valua- ble." Walch ranks it among the best expositions of the apostle's Gospel: — De Ci/mbalis veierum Libri tres (Utrecht, 1703, r2mo) : — Exercitationum sacrarium Do- decas, quibus Psalmus xlv perpetuo commentario explana- iur (Bremen, 1715, 4to) : — Geheimniss des Gnadenbundes (Bremen, 1723, 12mo ; translat. into Dutch, Amst. 1727, 8vo) ; this work is nothing more nor less than his sys- tem of theology : — Belinecifio Thelogim actirw (Utrecht, 1727, 4to): — Rudimenta Theohgim eknchticce (Bremen, 1729, 8vo). Lampe published also a large number of sermons and devotional treatises in German, which were nearly all translated into Dutch ; he rearranged and ed- ited an edition of the Ilistoria Ecclesim Refoi-mata in Iluuf/arid et Tran.yh'ania, attributed to Paul of De- brezin (Utrecht, 1728, 4to). Together with Hase, he published the lirst three volumes of tlie Bibliotlteca Bre- iiivnsis, for which he wrote a number of theological arti- cles. Other treatises which he published in various pa- pers were collected and published by D. Gerdes, togeth- er with his discourses and programmes (Amsterd. 1737, 2 vols. 4to~). See Schumacher, Memoria Lampii, in Mis- cel/anea Duisburgensia, vol. ii; Acta Eruditorum, ann. 1722; Klifkcr, Bibl. Eruditor. Prcecocium; Burmann, Trajectum eruditum; J ochei, A llr/em. Gel. Lexifcon; Hoe- fer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, xxix, 284; Gbbel (IMaximil- ian), Gesch. d. ('hristlichen Lebens, vol. ii (see Index).
Lampetians is the name of one of the heretical sects which, on pretence of promoting sanctity by *an ascetic life, made the Christian Sabbath a fast-day.
There was also another sect of this name in the 17th century, the followers of Lampetius, a Syrian monk, who pretended that, as a man is born free, a Christian, in order to please God, ought to do nothing by necessi- ty ; and that, therefore, it is unlawfid to make vows, even those of obedience. To this doctrine he added the views of the Arians, Carpocratians, and other sects. The Lampetians formed a branch of the Mkssalians (q.v.). — Farrar, Eccles. Diet. s. v.
Lampillas, Fk.vscis Xavieis, a Spanish .Jesuit, was born in (Jatalonia in 1731. After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain in 1767 he went to Genoa, where he died in 1810. His principal work is a defence of Spanish literature against Bettinelli and Tiraboschi, ^Uf/gio storico-apologetico della Leteraturu Spagnuola. See Hoefer, A'oMf. Biog. Generale, xxix, 285.
Laniplugh, Thomas, D.D., an English prelate of note in the days of king James II, was born in York- shire in 1G15. But little is kn(jwn of his early personal history. He was dean of Kochester in 1676, when he was promoted to tlie episcopate as bishop of Exeter. In this position he became one of the most conspicuous di- vines of the day, securing, in particular, the favor of the king by his partisanship, especially in 1688. In this year, just before the exit of king James from the English
throne, Lamplugh called on the king, was graciously received, praisecl for his loyalty, and awarded with the archbishopric of York, which had been vacant for more than two years and a half. William III. whom Lamp- high, strangely enough, recognised as the rightful sover- eign of England, after the tiight of James, contirmed the appointment, hence some writers' statement that William of Orange appointed Lamjdugh to the arch- bishopric. The archbishop died in 1691. See Debary, History of the Church of Enghmd, p. 167; ]\Iacaulay, Ilistorg of England, ii, 382. ( J. H. W.)
Laniprouti, Isaac, a Jewish Rabbi of some note as an author, flourished in Ferrara in the lirst half of the 18th centur3^ He died about 1756. He commenced the preparation of a large encyclopiedia of Rabbinism, of which he himself completed twelve volumes, bringing the work, excellent in its character, down to the letter Mem. It was published at Venice between 1750 and 1813. See Jost, Gesch. d. Judenth. u. s. Sekten, iii, 230.
Lamsoii, Alvan, D.D., a Unitarian minister, was born in 1792 at Weston, Mass. ; was educated first at Phillips Academy, Andover, and then at Harvard Col- lege, where he graduated in 1814. He was immediately appointed tutor in Bowdoin College, but left in 1816, and entered the Divinity School at Cambridge. In 1818 he became pastor of the First Church in Dedham, Mass., where he officiated for over forty years. He died July 18, 1864. He wrote much for the Christian Examiner, and in 1857 published a volume of sermons (Bost. 12ino). The Christian Register says of him: "Dr. Lamson has succeeded in uniting the acutest moral wisdom with the most unpretending and childlike modes of exhibiting it. His style is clear as crj'stal, sometimes almost quamt in its simplicity, and not without touches of poetic feeling as well as fancy, though a calm, shrewd judgment char- acterizes all his opinions." — AUibone, Diet, of Authors, vol. ii; Amei-ican Annual Cycloj)cEdia, 1864, p. 612.