RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
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Bibliography: The Decretorum libri viginti are in MPL, cxl. Materials for a life are in Lex families Wormatiensis ecctesice MGH, Legum, section iv., Constitutiones et acta, ed L Weiland, i. (1893) 639, no. 438; and the anonymous Vita, ed. G. H. Pertz in MGH, Script., iv. (1841) 829-846, and MPL, cxl. 507-536. Consult: Hauck, KD, iii.' 435; H. G. Gengler, Das Hofrecht des Burchard von Worms, Erlangen, 1859; A. M. Koniger, Burchard I. von Worms, Munich, 1903.
BURCHARD OF WURZBURG : Bishop of Wiirzburg 741-754. He was an Anglo-Saxon who left England after the death of his kinsfolk and joined Boniface in his missionary labors, some time after 732. When Boniface organized bishoprics in Middle Germany, he placed Burchard over that of Wiirzburg; his consecration can not have occurred later than the summer of 741, since in the autumn of that year we find him officiating as a bishop at the consecration of Willibald of Eichstadt. Pope Zacharias confirmed the new bishopric in 743. Burchard appears again as a member of the first German council in 742, and as an envoy to Rome from Boniface in 748. With Fulrad of Saint-Denis, he brought to Zacharias the famous question of Pepin, whose answer was supposed to justify the assumption of regal power by the Merovingians.
(A. Hauck.)
Bibliography: Two anonymous lives, one of the ninth or tenth, the other of the twelfth century, ed. Holder-Egger, are in MGH, Script, xv. (1887) 47-62. Consult: A. Nurnberger, Aus der litterarischen Hinterlassenschaft des Burchardus, Neisse, 1888; Rettberg, KD, ii. 313; Hauck, KD, i. 487 and passim; Neander, Christian Church, iv. 203.
BURDER, GEORGE: English Congregationalist; b. in London June 5, 1752; d. there May 29, 1832. He was trained for an artist, but began preaching under the influence of Whitefield and his associates; became minister at Lancaster, 1778; Coventry, 1783; Fetter Lane, London, 1803. He was one of the founders of the London Missionary Society (1795), of the Religious Tract Society (1799), and of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804), and from 1803 to 1827 served gratuitously as secretary of the first-named, besides editing The Evangelical Magazine for many years. The most successful of his many publications were Village Sermons (7 vols., London, 1798-1816), and A Collection of Hymns, Intended as a Supplement to Watts (1784), which went through some fifty editions and contained three or four hymns of his own.
Bibliography: There are Memoirs by his son, H. F. Burder, London, 1833, and by I. Cobbin, 1856. Consult also DNB, vii. 294-295, and for his hymns, S. W. Duffield, English Hymns, pp. 121, 508, New York, 1886; Julian, Hymnology, p. 194.
BURDINUS, MAURITIUS. See Gregory VIII.,
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BURGER, KARL HEINRICH AUGUST VON:
German theologian; b. at Baireuth (126 m. n. of Munich) May 1, 1805; d. at Schonau (a village near Berchtesgaden, 12 m. s. of Salzburg) July 14, 1885. He studied theology and philology at the University of Erlangen (1823-27), and in 1827 was appointed teacher at the gymnasium there. Eleven years later be became curate at Furth near Nuremberg, and in 1846 he was transferred II.— 20
in the same capacity to Munich, where he was appointed dean in 1849 and councilor of the high consistory in 1855, holding this office until his resignation in 1883. Under the guidance of his father-in-law, Johann Christian Krafft, of Erlangen, he gained a thorough knowledge of the Bible which was evinced by his Die Brief e Pauli an die Korinther (2 vols., Erlangen, 1859-60); Die Evangelien nach Matthdus, Marcus und Lucas (Nordlingen, 1865); Das Evangelium nach Johannes (1868); and Die Offenbarung St. Johannis (Munich, 1877). Interpreting the Bible by the Bible, he sought to render his work available for the educated laity, while clergymen also find it valuable in the preparation of sermons. His interpretation of Revelation has met with special favor in Wiirttemberg. While his sermons were not couched in popular style, and while they demanded close attention on account of their logic and depth, they appealed effectually to serious auditors, and two collections of them were published, Predigten in der protestantischen Stadtpfarrkirche zu Miinchen gehalten (Erlangen, 1857) and Predigten fur alle Sonn- und Festtage des Kirchenjahres (2 vols., Nordlingen, 1864). As a member of the high consistory, Burger aided the Bavarian Church to surmount rationalism and to become a true evangelical Lutheran body, and his task was facilitated by his thorough knowledge of philosophy, history, and theology, as well as by his tact and discretion. Despite his reserved and quiet nature, which shunned all publicity, he enjoyed the deep esteem and gratitude of the clergy and their congregations, as well as the confidence of the three kings of Bavaria under whom he served, Louis I., Maximilian II., and Louis II.
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BURGES, bur'jes, CORNELIUS: Presbyterian; b. in Somersetshire (date undetermined, probably 1589); d. at Watford (7 m. s.w. of St. Albans), buried there June 9, 1665. He was educated at Oxford in Wadham and other colleges; was vicar of Watford (1613-45), also (1626-41) rector of St. Magnus Church in London, holding the two charges at the same time. On the accession of Charles I. (1625), he was appointed one of the chaplains in ordinary. He was appointed a member of the Westminster Assembly in 1643. July 8 he was chosen by them assessor with Dr. White, and generally occupied the chair on account of the illness of Dr. Twissc. He was chairman of the first of the three grand committees of the Assembly, and one of the most energetic members of the body, being active especially in the discussion of Church Government and the Directory for Worship. He was energetic in political as well as ecclesiastical affairs. On the Restoration his handsome property was confiscated, and he died in want. His chief works are : A Chain of Graces Drawn out at Length for Reformation of Manners (London, 1622) ; The Fire of the Sanctuary newly Discovered or a Compleat Tract of Zeal (1625) ; and Baptismal Regeneration of Elect Infants (Oxford, 1 629) . In the latter he maintains : " It is most agreeable to the Institution of Christ that all elect infants that are baptized (unless in some extraordinary cases doe, ordinarily, receive, from Christ, the Spirit in
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