Pfaff, John Christopher

, an eminent Lutheran divine, was born May 28, 165), at Pfullingen, in the duchy of Wirtemberg. He taught theology with reputation at Tubingen, and died there February 6, 1720,“leaving” A collection of Controversies;“” A dissertation on the passages of the Old Testament that are quoted in the New;" and other works in Latin, which are esteemed. Christopher Matthew Pfaff, one of his sons, was professor |

of divinity, and chancellor of the university of Tubingen, and has also written several learned works in Latin; among others, “Institutiones Theologicx,” 1719 and 1721, 8vo; and “S. Irenaei fragmenta anecdota,” 8vo, Greek and Latin, with many doctrinal and critical works; hut the most valuable of all is his “Introductio in Historiam Theologiae Literariam,” 1724, 3 vols. 4to. This is a complete system of theological bibliography, and particularly accurate in what relates to English authors and English books. ¹