AMMON, CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1766 1850), German theological writer and preacher, was a very voluminous author. His principal theological work was the Fort bildung des Christenthums zur W eltreligion (Leipzig, Entwurf einer reinbiblischen Theologie appeared in 1792 (2nd ed. 1801) ; Summa Theologiae Christianae in 1803 (other eds., 1808, 1816, 1830) ; Das Leben Jesu in 1842, and Die wahre and falsche Orthodoxie in 1849.
See Herzog-Hauck Realencyklopddie; Otto Pfleiderer The Develop ment of Theology in Germany since Kant, pp. 89 seq.