Stark, Heinrich Benedict, professor of Oriental languages at Leipsic, was born in 1672, and died July 18, 1727. He wrote, pn~p'n ~\Mi,Lux Gi-ammaticce Bebrai- cce ex Clai-iss. hijvs lAngum Luminibus, etc. (2d ed. Lips. 1705, and often; last ed. by Bosseck, 17(54): — Lux Ac- centuationis fJebraicoi (ibid. 1707) : — Uebraifmi Etymolo- gici (ibid. 1709) : — Noiee Selectee in Loca Pubia ac Lijjicil, Pent,, Jos., etc. (ibid, 1714), See Fiirst, Pibl. Jvd, iii, 378; Winer, Handbuch der theol, Literatur, i, 115, 195, 240, 268 ; ii, 788 ; Steinschneider, Bihlioyr, Pandbuch, p, 185, (B, P,)
Stark, Jedediah Lathrop, a Dutch Reformed minister, was born at New London, Conn., March 6, 1793, He was a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1818. He spent two years in theological study, and in the autumn of 1820 was ordained pastor of the West Parish Church (Congregational) in Brattk borough, Vt,, where he preached for fourteen years (1820-34), and then removed to Buel, N. Y., and was pastor of a Church in that place eight years (1834-42). In 1842 he accept- ed an invitation to become the minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in IMohawk, N. Y., where he remained sixteen years (1842-58). The last four years of his life he was unable to perform much ministerial service on account of ill-health. He died at Mohawk, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1862. (J. C. S.)
Stark, Mark Y., a Presbyterian minister, was bom at Dunfermline, Scotland, Nov. 9, 1799. He was edu- cated at Essex, England, graduated at Glasgow Univer- sity in 1821, studied theology at the same university, was licensed bj' (ilasgow Presbytery of the National Church of Scotland, and afterwards travelled on the Contnient and extended his studies, attending lectures at the University of France as well as at Berlin. In 1833 he emigrated to Canada, and was soon after in- stalled as pastor of the congregations at Ancaster and Dundas. He occupied the moderator's chair of the last synod held before the division of the Church in Canada, and of the tirst Free Church Synod in Kingston in 1844. In 18()1, when the '•union" of the churches of Canada w^as consummated, it met with his hearty approval. In 18(52, on account of infirm health, he resigned bis charge, and died Jan. 24, 1866. See Wilson, Presb. IJist. A Imanac, 1867, p. 483.
Starke, CnnisToi*n, a German divine, was horn March 21, 1(!84, at Freienwalde, and died Dec. 12, 1744, as pastor primariiis at Driesen, in the Neumark. He is ijest known as the editor of Synopsis Pibliothecai Kxe- i/eticw in V.et N. Testamentum (1733-41, 9 vols.; repub- lished at Berlin 1865-68). See Theol, Uiiiversal-I^ex. s. V. ; Fiirst, Jiibl. Jnd. iii, 378 ; \\'iner, Ilandb. der theol, Literatur, i, 186 ; ii, 788. ( B. P.)
Starkodder, in Norse mythology, was a monstrous giant of Danish race who is said to have had eight
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hands. He became celebrated throughout the world on account of his Titanic deeds, and lived to the age of 250 years.
Starobradtzi is the official name of a numerous class of Russian dissenters who called themselves IStaro- vertzi. See Russian Sects, § i, 4.
Starr, Charles, a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, was recommended and admitted into the Oneida (Jonfereuce, September, 1834. He continued in the active ministry until his superannuation, about 1860. He was killed by the cars being thrown from tlie track of the New York Central Railroad, March 23, 1865. He served once as delegate to the General Con- ference. Mr. Starr was a preacher of more than ordi- nary gifts, and very successful in winning souls to Christ. See Minnies a/ Annual Conferences, 1865, p. 69.
Starr, Frederick, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 23, 1826. He was con- verted when ten years of age; graduated at Yale Col- lege in 1846, and at the Theological Seminary at Au- burn, N. Y., in 1849. Early in 1850 lie turned his steps westward, and, under Dr. Bullard, began his labors as a city missionary in St. Louis ; was ordained and installed by Lexington Presbytery as pastor of the Church in Weston, Mo., Nov. 17, 1850. While in Weston the question of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise be- gan to be agitated. On a visit to Auburn he took oc- casion to lay the facts in his possession, on this question, before the Hon. Wm. H. Seward and afterwards before Horace Greeley, but these gentlemen regarded them " as idle tales." Mr. Greele}', however, admitted into the columns of liis paper (the Tribune} two articles which Mr. Starr wrote on this subject. In 1853 Starr wrote a pamphlet styled Letters for the People on the Present Crisis, which his father had privatel}'' printed, and mailed from New York to all the foremost men and newspapers of the country. The aspect of the political heavens was becoming A&y by day more and more threatening. The Missouri Compromise was repealed May 25, 1854. The Platte Comity Self-defensive As- sociation, composed chietly of planters, was formed for the purpose of banishing from Weston and the whole surrounding country all the open and suspected friends of freedom. Another association was soon formed and called the Blue Lodge, the sole reliance of which was upon deeds of violence. The elders of his Church now advised him to leave the city, and he and his family left for Rochester, N. Y., where he arrived in the spring of 1855. He now took charge of the interests of the Western F^ikicational Society, and to him the Auburn Theological Seminary is indebted for a very large share of its endowments and popidarity. In .June, 1862, he resigned this agency and was installed as pastor of the Church of Penn Yan, N. Y. ; in April, 1865, he became pastor of the North Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Mo. He died Jan. 8, 1867. Mr. Starr ,vas characterized bv his strong conviction of principle and duty. He was thorough, fearless, untiring, and large-hearted. See Plumlev, Presb. Church, etc. p. 400; Wilson, Presh. hist. A Imanac, 1868, p. 227. (J. L. S.)