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by his Chiircli as rnissionan- siipcrinteiideiit, but after j i.iie vear';. work \h- had ai^ain to ri;-iiiii. In IH71 he mice more aeiepieil a call to (ialion, and when a year was over he i;ave up his cliari;e, never to resume it. He went to l^ouisville, and after four years of inactiv- itv, illness, icriif. anil longing for release, lie died, July «■>. l«7(i. Ik-sides educating a nuinlier of ministers in his own hi'use. Stern took an active part in the contm- \ersies which in former years agitateil the Keformed Church, and was a very active contributor to the i>eri- tKliculs of his denomination. See the obituary of Mr. Stern in the Itr/ornml Church Monthly, Sept. 1«76, w ritten bv his son. the Kev. H. J. Stern, of Louisville, Ky. (\\A'.)
Stern, Mendel Emanuel, a .Jewish writer, was iMirn at rr.>liiir::. in llmigary, in IKll, where the cele- brated Talniudist ral)bi Moses Soplier exercised an en- during influence upon the pious disposition of the youth. At tlie age of twelve he was oldiged to assist his father, then stricken with all the misfortunes of increasing blindness, in the duties of tuition at the Koyal Jewish Normal .Sch(H)l of his native place; and when fourteen vears old he replaceil his blind father in the arduous post i'f teacher. In 1XH3 he wa-s employed as reader in the fa- mous Oriental prinlingestablishnientof A. von Schmidt. He then tried his fortune as teacher in some coimtry places, and in 1n;5H settled at Vienna, whore henceforth lie occupieil himself exclusively with literary pursuits, and where he died, March 9, 1873. Of his numer- ous works we mention the following: "(V-3 5!l53"5 "ZV. a Hebrew grammar (Vienna and Presburg, 1829, and often since): — A metrical (ierman translation of the lK>ok of Proverbs (Presburg. 1832) : — A German trans- lation of the same book, with a Hebrew coinmeiitary (ibid. 1833) -.— The Ethics of the Fathers, r"l2X "^j^lS (Vienna, 1840), in German metrical and rhymed lines: — Liturffical I/ynuis on the Dirine Unity, 1^W^'l^\ ^^^^_ (ibid. 1840), also in German metrical and rhymed lines: — The Prophet Ezehiel, with a German translation and a Hebrew commentary (ibid. 1842) : — The Ethical Med- itatioits o/'/yf</</c.s-A/, cVir rpn3 0, with a (ierman translation (ibid. 1H47):— bsn';;i rinVin, or history of the Jews since their return from the IJabylonian cap- tivity to the destruction of Jerusalem by the IJomans (ibid. 1843), Hebrew and German: — A (ierman trans- lation of the iHiok Jesus Sirach, or Kcclesiasticus (ibid. 1M44) : — r""n^5C, or penitential hymns, with a (ierman translation (ibid. 1842): — "I'^Tn^, or festival prayers, with a (ierman translation (ibid. 1844. .5 vols.). In 184.T lie »tarte<l a Hebrew periodical entitled pnii^ "^^Z'S, The Star of Isaac, full of interesting matter, of which twenty -six parts were published ( ibid. 1845-Gl ) : — r'-iiil ri-in. The hntles of the Heart of IJechai, with a (ierman translation (ibid. 185(i, 2d ed.): — "^SIX "*S"2n, a 'I'almudical lexicon (ibid. 18()3). See Filrst, mill.. I ml. iii.3W) 3«8; Steinschiieider, liihliofjraphisches Jlawilmrh.i,. \:;7. (15. P.)
Stern, Siegmund, doctor of philosophy and preacher of the .lewisli Reformed Synagogue at IJer- lin, and lately director of the jihilanlhro/iiii at Fraiik- lort-<m-tlle-^lain (where he dieil. May '.t, lH(i7), was the author of /)iis Jiiili-iithiiin uml ilir .liitle iiii chrisllichen Slanlr ( lU-rlin, 1H4."» J : — y,»iV Aiifi/alte iles .Jinlenthiims mill lUr JikIih in ilt-r tlei/eutrart (ibid. 18b')): — l>ie lie- liifioH ,li« .Imli-nthumii (ibid. 184(;; 2(1 ed. 1848) :_///(- ijrilt-niriirlujf Hnceyniu) im Jiidinlhiim ( ibid. 184.^>) : — /mil (ifurhichle tlrt Jii)lriithutiui von Mmdflssohn bin aiif dir tlif/itiirarl, nebst Celn-rxicht drr iiltrrn Itdiifions- mid Kuliiiryfihichir ( Frankfort-oii-i he-Main, 18.')7). See Knr-t, Hibl. Jiid. iii, 388 ; Jost, (iesch. </. Judenlh. a, s. Seritn, iii, 380 wj. ; Griltz, Gench. d. Judeii, xi, 5G8 sq. (B. P.)
Stern, "Wilhelm, a German professor, was born April 22, 17'.I2. at Musbach, and died IMarch 31, 1873, at Carlsrube, having for forty years been teacher and di- rector of the evangelical seminary there. He wrote, Erfahninyen, (IrundsUtze vnd Gnindziiye fiir bihlisch- ch'ristlichen Reliyionsuuterrichl (Carlsrube, 1833): — Gischivht/iches Sprttchbuch zur Wicilerhobinii der hi- hlischeu Ci'eschichlen fiir christl. Schuleii (ibid. 1844): — Lehrbiichlein des chnstl. Glatibens nach der heiliyen Schrift, etc. (ibid. 1853) : — Fiinfzehn messiaiiische Psal- men (Barmen, 1870 ; new ed. 1872) : — Erklariing der vier Evanyelien (Carlsrube, 1807-69, 2 vols.). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. ii, 12G9; Delitzsch, Saat avf Hoffnung, x, 132 sq., 184 sq. ; llauck, Theolog. Juhresbericht, 1870, vi, 573 ; 1872, viii, t)73. (B. P.)
Sterne (or Stearne), John (1), a physician and ecclesiastical writer, was born at Ardbraccan, County of Meath, Ireland, in 1622. He was educated in the Col- lege of Dublin, became a fellow, was ejected because of his loyalty, but reinstated at the Restoration. He died in 1669. His writings are, Aphorismi de Felicitate (Dublin, 1654, 8vo; twice reprinted): — De Morte Dis- sertatio (iliid. 1656, 1659, 8vo) : — Animm Medela, seu de Beatitudine et Miseria (ibid. 1658, 4to) : — A driani Heer- boordii IHspvtutionum de Concvrsu Examen (ibid. 1658, 4to) : — De Eleclione et Reprobatione (ibid. 1662, 4to) : — to this is added Mamnhictio ad Vitum Probum : — De Obsti- natione, opus poslhumum, pietani Christiana - Stoicam scholastico more suadens, ]iublished in 1672 by Mr, Dod- well. See Chalmers, Pioy. Diet. s. v.