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supornafiiral ra<lianeo too impressive to be forgotten by thoM' >vln> know him. His ministry was accoriliiiiiiy 8ucces^flll ill the wiiiiiini; of souls. .Steiiihofer's writ- ings have been in part republished, and may be recom- mended to all wiio rejrard being imbued with the Scriptures as retjuisite for a right apprehension of the truth. They are, Tai/lic/ie Xdhruii;/ d. Ghtiibens w. </. A'/), an d. //tbriitr (latest ed. IXolt, with autobi- ography): — .\'iic/i d. Kp. an d. Colos,^ti (i><;")3) : — Xiich d. I.tbrii Jtsit (17lin, eighty-three sermons: — Eraiiye/. Oliiiibeii.-ii/nind (1753-54) : — Ecdut/tl. llhtubirnsgrund ans d. Leitlrn Jeitii (1754) : — lldusludltinrj d, dreieinii/en Ge- bris ( 175y ) : — Krkldruiirf d. ersteii lirufts Johannis (last ed. Hornburg. l«.')l">) :— /("ci/wfr (TUb. \»b\) -.—Christido- €fit (Xuremb. 17!i7 ; 'I'itb. 1S(J4), etc. See Knapp's sketch of .Stfinhofer's life in collection o( Sfnnons (■_'7) pub- lished by the Kvangelical Brotherhood at Stuttgart; the autobiography mentioned above; an article in the C/in-f/t-nlxitf. i«32, and another in the liriiderhote, 18G5- 66; M.S. sources in the archives of the Brotherhood, etc. — Herzog, lital-Eiici/klop. s. v.
Steinkopf, Cart. Frikprich Anoi.ru, a German doctor of tiiinlngy, was born at Liidwigsburg, Sept. 7, 1773, and studied theology at Tubingen. In 1801 he went to London as ]iastor of the Savoy Church, and placed himself in personal communication with the Ke- ligiou^i Tract Society, of which he afterwards became one of the secretaries. When the British and Foreign Bible .Society was foinided, March 7, 1804, Ur. Steinkopf took a prominent and important part, and was unani- mously appointed one of its secretaries, with special reference to the foreign department; but he also took his full share in its domestic deliberations and proceed- ings, lie sustained this office till the year 182(), when he retired, because he would not take tlie jiosition of the society regarding the Apocryphal bofiks of the Old Test. He died Jlay 29, 18.59. Steinkopf also published a series of sermons on diflferent topics, which are enu- merated by Zuchold in his BiU. Thi'ol. ii, 12G5. See also Thfol. riiirer.iiil-Lcxikxm.s.v.; Xciie eraiif/el. Kir- chenzfitmiri, 1859, No. 32; but more especially the Me- »('/»■/'(/ puiilished in the Fif/i/surt/i Rijioii (18(50) of the British and Foreign Bible Society, p. 180 sq. (B. P.)
Steinmetz, .Ioiiann Adam, member of consistory, abbiit of Bergen, and general superintendent of the duchy of Magdeburg, was born in 1089. and died June 10, 17G3. He wrote, Kmiub {di Tnini) Conniientarivs in JogiKim, etc., i« I'ersione cum Xotis lUuslnitiim (Leips. 1"12): — Mm litir/i dcr \Vei</iei/, nuch dem Grundlext in ffrin-/iijir/ier Sjirnr/ii' mil philoliif/ischen niid moralischen A iimtrikiiiu/m ( Magdeburg and Leips. 1747). See Flirst, JiiU. Jiid. iii. 383 ; \\'iner, IJuTulbuch der theol. Literatur, ii, 325, 3:i(;, 789. (B. P.)
Steins, Frkdkrick, a Presbyterian minister, was born in (^rmany Nov. 18, 180.5. He was educated at Mors, in Prussia, studied theology in the University of Bonn, and was lii'ensed and ordained in the min- iHleriiini of Cologne in 1H35, and for some years had the pastoral charge of n church near the Bhine. He afn-rwanls emigrated to America, and entered the Dutch Keformed Chiinh in New York, but soon niadc a very pleasant acr|uaintance witli some Presbyterian ministers «f the Old .SchiMd, and sought admission into their Chiin-h with the pros|)ect, as he supposed, of greater uwfulness. His field was a mission in the eastern \iart of New York city. He had a vast population of poor (Jermans nm<iiig whom to work, and he lalmred faith- fully, going from house to house Ihrougli the streets where the jxK.r dwell, seeking tlie ac(|iuiiiitaiice of all, and distributing tracts, uttering words of comfort to the diMrewed nnd counsel to the indolent and ungodlv. While thus employed in his Master's service he died, Aug. .30, |Kf.7. Mr. Steins was thoroughly trained in theologj-, a lalM)riou8 man, and a kind and atTecticmate pantor. See \\ilson, I're»b. Hist. Almanac, 18G8, p. 148. (J.L.S.)
I Steitz, Geouo Ei>rARD, a German Protestant di- vine and doctor of divinity, was born July 25, 1810, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. In 1840 he i)assed his theo- j logical examination; and from 1842 until his death, ! which occurred at his native jilace, Jan. 1, 1879, he I occujjied high positions in the Church. Besides his contributions to the first edition of Herzog's Reul-En- cykliijiddie, the Sludien u. Kritiken, and J ahi-biicher fiir deiilscke Tkeoloyie, he published, iJie Prirutbeichle u, J'riratabsolutiun der luth. Kiiche aiis den Quellen des \Gtcii .falirhunderts, hiiiiptsdc/i/ich (iiis Liithers Schriften, etc. (Frankf.-oii-the-Main, 1854) : — Las romische Buss- sacranwnt. nuch seinein bihl. Grvnde und seiner (/eschichf- lichen Enttcicktbiiig, etc. (ibid. 1854) : — Die Melancthons- II. Liithersherben/en zii Frankfurt a. M. (ibid. 1862). See Zuchold, Bib/. Theol. ii, 12G7 ; Neiie eranyel. Kirchen- zeituny, 1879, No. 19; but more especially Zur Erinne- rung an Herrn Senior Dr. Theol. G. E. Steitz, Zwei Reden von Dr. Junq und Dr. Dechent (Frankf.-on-the-Main, 1879). (B. P.)
Steld, a mediicval term to describe a stem, stalk, or handle.
Stella, James, a French painter, was born at Lyons in 1596. At the age of twenty, being at Florence, he was assigned lodgings and a pension by duke Cosmo de' Medici. After remaining here several years, he went to Rome, Milan, and finally to Paris, where Kichelieu presented him to the king, who honored him with the Order of St. Michael and ordered several large paint- ings. He died in 1647. While at Paris he sjjent his winter evenings designing the Histories of the Holy Scriptures. He also painted the Holy Family, of which a fine engraving was made. See Chalmers, Biog. Diet, s. V.