Neuss, Heixrich Georg, D.D.. a German Lutheran theologian, was born, March 11, 1G51, at Elbingoroda, in the duchy of Brimswick. He received his early ed- ucation at Osterwick, Quedlinburg, and Halberstiidt. Being very poor, he accepted the private tutorship in the house of Dr. Keccius, in W^ernigerode, a position which he held for three years, until, in 1G77, he was enabled to go to Erfurt, where he studied theolog}% In 1683 he was appointed conrector at Blankenburg, and in the next year rector. In 1G90 he became adjunct to the Rev. Chr. Schmidt in Wolfenbiittel, and then deacon at the church of St. Henrici. Here he became intimately connected with two other pious ministers, who com- menced to hold private meetings for devotional \mt- poses. Soon, however, these meetings were openly spoken against, especially under the lead of Fr. Ulr. Calixt, of Helmstiidt, who wrote against chiliasm, and the result was that in 1G92 an edict was issued which forbade such pietism as heresy. These three men then left Wolfenbiittel. Neuss was called to Hedwigsburg, and three years later, in lG9o, the duke Rudolph Au- gustus appointed him superintendent in Remmlingen; and in 1G9G count Ernest von Stolberg called him to Wernigerode as pastor primarius at St. Sylvester and George, and superintendent and councillor of the con- sistory. Neuss died there Sept. 30, 1716. Besides some theological works, he also published a collection of 134 hymns, entitled Hchopfer (heave-offering). The best known of his hymns is his "Ein reines Herz, Herr schaff in mir" (Engl, transl. by E. Cox, in Hymns from the German, p. 176, "A new and contrite heart create"). Comii. Koch, Gesch. d. deutsch. Kirchen/iedes, iv, 425 sq.; V, 573 sq.; Jocher, Gelehrten-Lexikon, iii, 888; supple- ment by Rottermund, v, 589 sq. ; Wezel, llymmpoeogra- phia (Herrnstadt, 1721), ii, 240 sq. ; Winterfeld, Der evang. Kirchengesang (Leips. 1845), ii, 522-533. (B. P.)
Neustadt, Bible of, is the title of a revision
of Luther's version of the Scriptures made at Neustadt in 1588 by the Reformed Church to express more clearly the Calvinistic notions of that body. The master spirit in this revision was David Parens!^ In 1595 the Biblia Herboi-nensia was brought out by the Reformed bodv and it met with less opposition. See, however the articles Pareus (David) and Siegwart.
Neuville, Charles Frey de, a French pulpit orator, brother of the following, was born in the diocese of Coutances, Dec. 23, 1G93. He was educated in the college of the Jesuits at Rennes, who, recognising his ability, initiated him into their order in 1710. He taught belles-lettres and philosophy for eighteen years, when he made his debut in the pidpit, where he had great success (1736). After the dissolution of his soci- ety, his presence, quite inoffensive, was tolerated in France, and, under the protection of the king and queen, he lived unmolested but retired. His death occurred July 13, 17/4, in St. Germain-en-Laye. AVe have of his works, Oraison funebre de M. le Cardinal de Fleury, etc. (Paris, 1743, 4to, and often) -.—Oraison de tres-haut, tres-puissant seigneur Charles- A ugvste Foucquet de Belle- Isle, due de Giso7-s, jmir et marechal de France, etc. (Paris, 1761, 4to) -.—Sermons (Paris, 1777, 8 vols. r2mo; Lyons, 1778, 8 vols. r2mo). These sermons have been translated into German by J.-B. Dily (Vienna, 1777-80, 8 vols. 8vo) and by Priest. Joh. Buchmann (Augsburg^ 1841, 12rao); into Spanish by Juan-Antonio Pellicer, Juan Ceron, and Pontela (Madrid, 1784); into Italian (Venice, 1774, 1786, 1793). Neuville had collected three volumes oWbservations hist, et crit., but the fear of wrong interpretations and of compromising his editors deter- mined him, some days before his death, to throw his manuscript into the tire. Biographers have often con- founded this ecclesiastical orator with his brother, and with Anne Joseph de la Neuville. See Caballero, Bihli- othecce. scriptorum Societatis Jesu (Rome, 1814-lC, 4to) ; Alois et Alphonse de Backer, Bill, des ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jesus, 1st series, p. 519, 520. — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Neuville, Pierre-Claude Frey de, a French theologian, was born at Grandville, Sept. 5, 1692. His family were originally from the canton of Basle, and went for some unknown cause, to dwell in Brittany. Neuville entered, Sept. 12, 1710, the Society of Jesus, where he occupied honorable and responsible positions. Twice he was provincial. He was a good preacher. When his order was threatened with dissolution (1763), he did not await persecution, but retired to Rennes, where he died in August, 1775. We have of his works. Sermons (Rouen, 1778, 2 vols. 12mo) ■.-Obser- vations sur Vinstitut de la Sociele de Jesus (Avignon, 1761, 1762, 1771, 12mo) :— Z,e/^?e d'u7i ami de la verite a. ceux qui ne haissent jms la lumi'ere, ou reflexions cri- tiques sur les reproches faits a la Societe de Jesus rela- tivement a la doctrine (12ino). See Raymond Diosada Caballero, Bibliothecce sc7iptorum Societatis Jesu (1814- 16, 4 to); Feller, Supplement de la France litteraire; Nouvel appel a la raison des ecrits et libelles jniblies par la ]iassion contre les Jesuites de France (Brussels, 1761, 12mo); Alois et Alp. de Backer, Bihliotheque des ecri- vains de la Compagnie de Jesus; Barbier, Diet, des Anonymes, No. 9643 ; Catalogus j^ersonarum et officioi-um provincice FrancicB Societatis Jesu, ann. 1759, p. 3. — Hoefer, A'ouv. Biog. Generale, s. v.
Neuville (de Plessis-Bardoul), Roland de, a noted French prelate, was born in 1530. He was abbe of St. James of Montfort when, in 15G2, he was nomi- nated bishop of St. Pol-de-Leon by the protection of the duke d'litampes, in the place of Roland de Chauvigne. Though he may have assisted at the Council of Tours (1583), and may have subscribed to the edicts of tolera- tion published in 1588, Neuville showed himself none the less a violent persecutor of the Protestants ; he him- self boasted of not having left a single heretic in his di- ocese. He died in Rennes, Feb. 5, 1613, after fifty years'