Schmid, Konrad, a coadjutor of Zwingli in the reformation of Switzerland, born in 1476; died (with Zwingli, on the battle-field of Cappel) October, 1.531, After studying at Basle, he entered a monastery at Kussnacht, and in 1519 became its commander. This same year Zwingli came as preacher to Zurich, and with him Schmid entered at once into close intimacy. In 1522 he threw aside Latin and preached at Zurich a
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stirring sermon in " good German," in which he opposed the excessive claims of the pope and the abuses of image- worship. In a religious conference at Zurich, October, 1523, he acted as mediator between the violent icono- clasts and the conservatives. "Let the weak have the images,'' said he, " as a sort of staff to lean upon until they have taken hold upon Christ; when they once have done this, they wiU let go the staff as being no longer needful." Also he blamed the coarse manner in which some spoke of the mass, as if it were a mere in- vention of the devil. At the close of his discourse on this occasion, he recommended to the civil authorities great moderation, and urged them to provide a thorough religious education of the masses. \\'hen Zwingli at- tended the conference with Luther at Marburg (Oct. 1529), Schmid tilled his place as preacher in the cathe- dral of Zurich. He was an able and holy priest of God. See Bullinger, Reformat iomyeschichte ; Herzog, Real- EnnjUop. s. V. (J. P. L.)
Schmid, Sebastian, D.D., a native of Alsatia, was born Jan. 6, 1G17, at Lamperheim, and died Jan. 9, 1696, at Strasburg, where he was professor of theology and canonicus. lie was a voluminous writer. His prin- cipal Biblical works were his translation of the Bible : Biblia Sacra V. T. et N. ex Linr/uis Original, in Ling. Lat. translata (Strasb. 1696, 1708 ; New Test. 1715):— and his commentaries: On Genesis (Strasb. 1697) : — Judges (ibid.
1684, 1691, 1706): — ^H/A (ibid. 1696): — A7h^s (ibid. 1687): — /oi (ibid. 1670, and often) : — CoMe^A (ibid. 1704 ) : — Isaiah ( Hamb. 1702 ) : — Jeremiah ( Strasb. 1685; Frankf. 1697, llOfS):— Minor PropJiets (Leips.
1685, 1687, 1698):— Hosea (Frankf. 168T):— Romans, Galatians, and Colossiaiis, etc. (Hamb. 1704): — EpJie- sians (Strasb. 1684, 1699) ■.—Hebrews (ibid, 1680 ; Leips. 1693, 1722): — 1 John (Frankf. and Leips. 1687, 1707, 1726). Some of these were posthumous publications; they are all much valued for sound and learned exe- gesis.— Kitto.
Schmidt, Erasmus, a German scholar, was born in Delitzsch, April 27, 1560. He became professor of Greek and mathematics at Wittenberg, and died in that city Sept. 22, 1637. His chief work is Concordantice Noi-i Test. (Yitemb. 1638, fol.). It was republished in Glas- gow (2 vols.Svo) and in London (1830, 48mo). He also published a highly improved edition of Beza's version of the New Test.
Schmidt, Johann Eusebius, a Lutheran min- ister, was born in 1669 at Hohenfcld, in Tliuringia. A friend and pupil of A. H. Franke, he lived from 1697 as pastor in Siebleben, near Gotha, until his death, in 1745. Schmidt was a fine hymn-writer, and some of his hymns belong to the best of German hymnology, as Es ist voll- hracht, so rtift am Kreuze (transl. into Engl, by Mills in his Ho7-<e Germanicce, No. 161, "'Tis finished! thus in tortures dj'ing") : — Fahre fort, fahre fort (Engl, transl. in Monthly Rel. Mag. 1866, xxxv, 363, " Onward go, onward go"). See Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kir- ckenliedes, iv. 402 sq. ; viii, 141 ; Knapp, Evangel. Lieder- schatz, p. 1343. (B. P.)
Schmolck, Bexjamin, a gifted German hymnolo- gist, was born in Liegnitz, 1672. He studied theologj' at Leipsic from 1693 to 1697, became assistant pastor to his father at Liegnitz in 1701, but the next year accepted a call to Schweidnitz as dean. Here he spent the rest of his life as a laborious pastor, exerting himself manfully to counteract the intrigues of the Jesuits and to preserve his people in their evangelical faith. In 1708 he was made archdcan,in 1712 senior, and in 1714 pastor prima- rius. After a pastorate of thirty-live years, he entered into rest, 1737. By his hymns and songs, which appear- ed in various editions from 1704 and on, he has obtained an honorable place among the poets of his Church and nation. Their general tone is that of gentleness and simplicity, and of ardent love to Christ. IMany of them, however, betray marks of carelessness in rhetoric and of lack of polish. A complete edition of his poems ap-
peared at Tubingen in 1740. A selection was published by L. Grote at Leipsic in 1860. For his life, see this work of Grote and Herzog, Real- Ency Mop. xiii, 608, 609. (J. P. L.)
Schmucker, Peter, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Michclstadt, grand- duchy of Hesse -Darmstadt, Aug. 24, 1784. His par- ents removed to this country while he was yet an in- fant, and settled in Virginia. He was converted in his eighteenth year, and entered the ministrj' of the Lu- theran Church in 1814. We cannot specify the congre- gation he served, but his name is found in 1817 in the printed list of the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina; and in 1820 he was one of the delegates who met at Hagerstown, INId., to form the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States. Still later we find him recorded as a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of West- ern Pennsylvania. In 1832 he joined the Methodist Church, and in 1838 entered the Ohio Conference to take charge of the German Mission in Cincinnati. In 1840 he was afipointed to Louisville, Ky., and in 1842 sent to New Orleans to begin work among the Germans there. He continued to labor in different parts of the United States until 1848, when ill-health disabled him. From that time he suffered greatly, until relieved by death, Dec. 9, 1860. — Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1861, p. 165.