cited before a committee of examination to defend him- self against complaints respecting his teachings in tiie lecture-room. The intervention of political events de- prived the examination of such importance as it might have possessed l\)r him, but his influence was neverthe- less irrevocably broken. Ullmanii came to reinforce Tholuck in 1829, Julius Miiller ten years afterwards; and the orthodox tendency grew in every direction, ^lany of the polemical blows aimed by Hase against Hijhr in 1834 took effect on Wegscheider also. As his reputation declined, students no longer found it possi- ble to endure the tediousness and monotonous delivery of his lectures, and but few of them continued to sit at his feet after 1840. He died in February. 1849. The scientific value of his Institutiones, the great systematic theology of rationalism, owes but little of its character to Wegscheider. Its thoughts are borrowed, usually from llenke's Lineamenta and Ammon's Summa, and, in many instances, in the exact words of those books. It abounds in half- completed ideas and unreconciled differences, as does scarcely any other theological work. Its true character was shown up for the first time by Hase in his Antirohr (1837). See also Steiger, Kritik des Rutionalisnms in Wegscheider s Dogmatik (1830) and Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s. v,
Wegsv/in, in Norse mythology, is one of the streams of Hel, flowing through Nifliieim.
Weichselzopf, in German mythology, is a name given to a certain disease which was thought to be de- rived from the river Weichsel, because this sickness was supposed to be common in Poland, It is, however, now quite certain that the name really is Wichtelzopf taken from the superstitious idea of Wichtel — small, <\o- mestic, elfjike spirits that, doubtless, in many cases are beneficial to men, yet, when teased or tantalized, are angry and evil-minded ; and, besides doing other mis- chief, the\' are said to interlace the hairs of the head into inextricable plats and knots, — Vollmer, Wurterh.d. Mythol. s. V,
Weickhniann, Joachim Samuei>, a Lutheran theologian of (iermany, was born May 1, 1714, at Dant- zic. From 1735 to 1739 he studied at Leipsic, and his dissertation, published in 1739, De Fontihus Veritatis iSaci'cp in Rivulis Profanis Sparsce ad Lactant. Lib. VII, Cap. 7, gave him the privilege of lecturing on phi- losophy. In 1740, having presented another disserta- tion, De Platonica Aniniorum Immortalitate, he was appointed adjunct to the philosophical faculty. Three years later he was made professor extraordinary, and in 1744 professor in ordinary of theology, his dissertation for this occasion having been De Tfieologis Tridentinis, alia Loqiiciitibiis, alia Sentientihus. Shortly afterwards he was made doctor of theologj', and died Oct. 18, 1774. Besides the writings already mentioned, he published, De Christo in Moi-te Gloriosisshno (Vitebergaj, 1755) : — De Discrimine GraticB Divince sine Merito contra Meri- tum (ibid. 1757): — Johns, Resurrectionis non Typus, sed Professor (ibid. 1759). His other writings are enumer- ated in Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. iii, 497; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deiilschlands, iv, 672 sq. (B. P.)
Weidelbot is a priest of the Wends in Pomera- nia and Kiigen, the next to Griwe.
Weidman, Paul, a Reformed (Dutch) minister, was born in 1788. He graduated at Union College in 1818, at New Bnmswick Theological Seminary in 1820, and was licensed by the Classis of New Brunswick the same year; was pastor at Schoharie, N. Y., 1820-36; at Manheim, 1837-41, and again, 1841-50. He died in 18.52. See Corwin, Manual of the Ref, Church in A merica, p. 543,
"Weidnei", Johann Joachim, a Lutheran theo- logian of (iermany, was born Aug. II, 1672, at Rostock. He studied at different universities, and in 1699 he was appointed deacon at St. Mary's in his native place. In 1706 lie received the degree of D,D,, in 1716 was ap-
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pointed professor of theology', aiid in 1721 senior of the theological faculty, and died Oct. 17, 1732. He was a voluminous writer. Of his works we mention :. Z>zj>"- jnitt. IX contra Reformatos, quod non Conveniant cum f.ntheruiris in Pbirimis Articulis Fidei : — Dissertationes Ties de (! idtia Dei Univei'sali non Particulari : — Chris- tiis ex Bihliis bjioovmoQ : — De Forma S. Canm in Con- secralione et cum eadem Conjuncta Sacramentali Man- ducatione et Bibilione: — Miraculum Murorum Hieri- chuntis Cadentium: — Christus Resurgem Victor, etc. See Seelen, Athena Lubecenses ; Jocher, Allgenieines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s. v. (B. P.)
Weidner, Paul, a Jewish convert of Carinthia who joined the Christian Church in 1588, was professor of Hebrew at the Vienna University, and was appointed b}' imperial permission to preach occasionally to the Jews. He wrote Loca PrcEcipua Fidei Christiance Col- lecta et Erplicata (Vienna, 1559; 2d ed. 1562, with Epistolu Hebr. ad R. Jehudani, Venet. Habitantem, cum Versione Latina). See Kalkar, Israel unddie Kirche, p. 90 ; Delitzsch, Wissenschaft, Kitnst, Judenthum, p. 139, 290; Wolf, Bibl. Hebr. i, 904; Jocher, Allgemeines Ge- lehrten-Lexilcon, s. v.; FUrst, Bibl. Jud. iii, 498; Bayle, Dictionnaire Historique et Critique. (B. P.)
"Weigel, Christopher, a German engraver, was born at Kedwitz, in Bohemia, in 1G54. After visiting various German cities, he settled in Nuremberg, where he died in 1725. His principal work was a set of Bible plates engraved from his own designs, entitled Sacra Sci-iptura Loquens in Dnaginibus, etc., published in 1690. They were executed with the graver. He is also said to have engraved in mezzotinto, and to have carried on an extensive commerce in prints. See Spooner, Biog, Hist, of the Fine Arts, s. v.