UrLsperger, Johann August, a German theolo- gian and controversialist, was born Nov. 25, 1728, and during most of his public life was pastor and senior at Augsburg. He was possessed of great learning and penetration, and was a fearless and earnest tliinker. He was also a foremost champion of evangelical truth against the attacks of the philosophical and rationaliz- ing neologies of his country, and contributed several trenchant works to the literature of that controversy,
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amdiig them, Versucke einer genauen Bestimmntig des Ge/ieimimseji Gottes {l7G9-~4, 4 pts. 4to) : — Kuizge/asstcs System der Dreieinigkeitslehre : — Traktat vom gdttiichen Kbenbilde. He founded the " Deutsche Clirisienthums- Gesellschaft" (German Society for Christianity), the idea forwhich he tooii from the l?ritisli Society for Pro- motiuf^ Cliristian Knowledge (founded 1C98) and the Swedish society " l)e Fide et Christianismo." The so- ciety was first establishe(i in Basle, but failed to under- take the work for which Urlsperger had called it into being — the advocacy and defence of pure doctrine — and devoted its efforts rather to the promotion of true piety. Though disappointed, Urlsperger gave his services re- peatedly to the society, and continued to travel over the Continent and to England in its behalf, until he died at Hamburg, Dec. I, LSOG. See Ilerzog, Reul- Encykiop. s. v.; but corap. Smith's Hagenbach, Hist, of Doctrines, § 295, p. 3.
Urlsperger, Samuel, a Protestant divine of Ger- many, fatlicr of the preceding, was born Aug. 31, 1(585, at Kirchheim, in Wurtemberg. lie belonged to a Hun- garian Protestant family, which with many others was obliged to leave the country during the Thirty Years' War. He studied at Tubingen, where he publicly spoke on Ratio etjides coUatce contra Zackium et Poire- tnm. He continued his stuilies at Erlangen from 1708, and after a short stay at Jena and Halle, he went to Leyden, Utrecht, London, Oxford, and Cambridge. Af- ter his return to Germany, he was appointed pastor in 1713 at Stettin. In 1714 he went to Stuttgart as court preacher and member of consistory. Deposed from his ofhce in 1718, he was appointed in 1720 superintendent at Ilerrenburg, and three years later he was called to Augsburg, where he died, April 21, 1772. Besides a number of sermons, he published, A usjuhrliche Nach- richt von den salzburr/ischen Emii/ra/iten, die sich in Amerika uiedergelassen haben (Halle, 1735-52, 3 vols.) : — A merikunisches Ackerwerk Gottes oder zuverldssige Nachrichten von dem Zustaude der von den salzbiir- gischen Emigranten erbaiiten Stadt Kben-Ezer ( ibid. 1754-66). See Doring, Gelehrte Theohgen Deutsch- Umds, iv, 559 sq. ; Koch, Gesch, des deutschen Kirchen- liedes, v, 71 sq. (B. P.)
Urquehart, John, a graduate of the University of St. Andrew's, Scotland, and a youth of singular promise and piety, was born in Perth, June 7, 1808. In April, 1824, he made a decided profession of piet}', and con- secrated his powers entirely to the service of his Re- deemer. He left the university in 1826 with the repu- tation of being by far the most eminent of his class, al- though then but seventeen years of age. He decided to become a missionary to the heathen, but, on account of liis }'outh,was induced to wait a while before enter- ing upon the arduous duties of that station. He died Jan. 10, 1827, at the age of eighteen. See his Memoirs, Letters, and Select Remains, by Orme.
Urquhart, John F., a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Montgomery County, Ala., Sept. 15, 1841. He experienced religion \vhen,about nine years old, moved with his parents to Florida in 1852, joined the Florida Conference in 1860, and labored in it faithfully until his death, Aug. 19, 1864. Mr. Urquhart was a young man of lively spirit, relined and elevated by grace, and very promising. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. £. Church, South, 1864, p. 522.
Ursacius, bishop of Liugidimum, in IMnesia, during the 4th century, is noted as being a disciple of Arius, and one of the prominent leaders of the Arian court- party. See Neander, /list, of the Church, ii, 404 sq.
TJrslcinus, antipope, was a deacon of Rome, and claimed the election as successor of Tiberius over Dam- asus (q. V. ),who was elected ( A.D. 366 ) by a larger party of the clergy and the Roman people, and was rec- ognised b}- the emperor Valentinian I. After a pro-
tracted conflict, Ursicinus was driven out of Italy, and went to Cologne. He returned to Italy in 381, and re- newed the agitation, but was finally banished by the Council of A(iuileia. He is not included in the lists of popes. See Ilerzog, Real-Encyklop. s. v.
XJrsins (O/'sini), the name of a French familv emi- nent, from the 15th century, for its services in State and Church and historical literature. Two of them are ap- propriate here.
1. Jacquks .Iouvknel pes, brother of the succeed- ing, was born in Paris, Oct. 14, 1410, and became suc- cessively archdeacon of the Cathedral of Paris (1441) and archbishop of Rheims (Sept. 25, 1444) ; but in 1449 he resigned the latter position in favor of his brother, receiving the two dioceses of Poitiers and Frejus. He died at Poitiers, March 12, 1457. He was occupied in several political and ecclesiastical negotiations of the time.
2. Jkan Juvenal (or Jouimiel des), Jr., a prelate and historian, was born in Paris, Nov. 23, 1388, and, af- ter studying at Orleans and Paris, became doctor in utroque jure, and enjoyed some minor offices; but was driven into exile with his parents in 1418. In 1425 he returned as advocate-general under Charles A'^II, and soon rose tlirough lower ecclesiastical positions to the bishopric of Beauvais (1431). In 1444 he was trans- ferred to the see of Laon, and in 1449 he became arch- bishop of Rheims, where he died, July 14, 1473. He was engaged in several diplomatic embassies, and wrote a number of ecclesiastical works, for which see Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s. v^.