The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Mosheim, Johann Lorenz von

MOSHEIM, Johann Lorenz von, yō'hän lō'rĕnts fōn mōs'hīm, German Protestant theologian: b. Lübeck, 9 Oct. 1694; d. Göttingen, 9 Sept. 1755. He studied and taught at Kiel; became professor of theology at Helmstedt in 1723, abbot of Marienthal in 1726 and professor (1747) and university chancellor (1755) at Göttingen; was a notable preacher and an erudite theologian and church historian of liberal leanings; and wrote &lsquo;Institutiones Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ &rsquo; (1755, translated into English by Maclaine); &lsquo;Institutiones Historiæ Christianæ&rsquo; (1763); &lsquo;Attempt at an Impartial and Thorough History of Heresies&rsquo; (1748-50); &lsquo;Morals of the Holy Writ&rsquo; (1770-78); etc.