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Wertheim Bible designates a German version of the Pentateuch, which excited great interest at the time of its first appearing (Easter, 1735), but has now lost whatever importance it may have heretofore possessed. It has not even the merit of being rare. It is, as its title indicates, the first volume of an intended issue … Continue reading “Wertheim Bible”

Wertfrei (Ger. value-free) Seeing the central strength of the scientific attitude in its valuational neutrality, Max Weber (1864-1920) insisted that the deliberate abstention from taking sides for the value or against the disvalue of a thing when under scientific scrutiny was essential to progress in the social sciences. — H.H. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Wernsdorf, Gottlieb (1) professor of theology in the university, provost in the court church, general superintendent of the diocese of Wittenberg, and ecclesiastical councillor to the duke of Weissenfels, was born February 25, 1668, of a noble but poor family. His theological position was that of strict Saxon orthodoxy, united with Spenerian earnestness as respects … Continue reading “Wernsdorf, Gottlieb (2)”

Wernsdorf, Ernst Friedrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born December 18, 1718, at Wittenberg. He studied theology and philosophy at Leipsic, was made magister in 1742, and after presenting his dissertation De Septimia Zenobia, Palmyarenorum Augusta, was allowed to lecture at the university. In 1746 he was made professor extraordinary of philosophy, and opened … Continue reading “Wernsdorf, Ernst Friedrich”

Werner von Siemens Physicist. Born 1823; died 1892. Formulated the principle of the dynamo, and made other important contributions to the science of electricity. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Convert, poet, and pulpit orator, born at Konigsberg, Prussia, 18 November, 1768; died at Vienna, 17 February, 1823. When sixteen years old he attended lectures on law and political economy at the University of Konigsberg, and at the same time was a zealous disciple of Kant. He received an appointment as … Continue reading “Werner, Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias”

Werner, Friedrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born May 28, 1659, at Flemingen, near Naumburg. He studied at Leipsic, where he died, April 21, 1741, having received the degree of D.D. in his eighty-second year. He wrote, Praecepta Homiletica: Tract. Hermenecutico-homileticus in Evangelia Dominicalia et Festivalia: Dicta Biblica ex V. et N.T. cum Scopo … Continue reading “Werner, Friedrich”

Werner, Andreas Konrad a Protestant theologian of Germany in the first half of the 18th century, is the author of, Dissertationes Tres de Puritate Fontium Hebraeorum Specialim ex Libro Josuae, etc. (Stade, 1720-26): Diss. de Samaritanis eorumque Templo in Monte Garizim AEdificato (Jena, 1723): De Votis Veterum Israelitarum ex Antiquitate Judaica (Stade, 1737): Diss. de … Continue reading “Werner, Andreas Konrad”

Wernems, Rollwinck De Laer a Westphalian, and Carthusian monk at Cologne, was born in 1425. He was the author of some works, among them Fasciculus Temporum, embracing all the ancient chronicles, coming down to 1480, and continued by John Linturius to 1514. He died in 1502. See Mosheim, Hist. of the Church, book 3, cent. … Continue reading “Wernems, Rollwinck De Laer”

Wermelskirch, Johann Georg a Lutheran minister of Germany, was born February 22, 1803, at Bremen. In 1820 he entered the missionary institution of father Janicke at Berlin, and some time afterwards the seminary of the English missionary society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews at Henstead, near Portsmouth. From 1824 to 1835 … Continue reading “Wermelskirch, Johann Georg”