WINER, GEORG BENEDICT, D.D., was born Leipsic 13th April 1789. He was educated at the gymnasium and university of his native town. In 1819 he became extraordinary, and in 1823 ordinary professor of theology at Erlangen, whence he returned to Leipsic in 1832 to fill one of the chairs of theology there. In this sphere the most of his life was spent. He died t2th May 1858. Winer was a man of extensive and exact scholar ship, and his writings have been highly appreciated wherever they have been known. To him we are indebted for the best treatise extant on N. T. grammar, and his Realwiirterbuch is a storehoust of Biblical knowledge, from which all subsequent writers on the subjects it embraces have found it their interest to draw. Very useful to theological students is his Conzparative Darstellung der Lehr begrifi der zzerschiedenen Christl. Kirchenparteien, 4to, 1824, sec. ed. 1837 ; as also his edition of the Augsburg Confession, with notes, 1825 ; but it was in the department of Biblical literature that he chiefly laboured. His principal Biblical works
are : Grammatik des N. T. Sprachia'iams, Leip2. I 822, translated from the 6th ed. 0855) into English, 2 vols. Edin. 1859 ; Granzmatik des Bibl. u. Tar gum. Chaldaesmus, 1824; Chald. Lesebuch,1825; Simonis Lex. Heb. et Chald. online etynzologieo descriptunz, 182S ; Beitrag zur verbesser. der AT. T. Lexicographie, 1823; De Vers. Pentat. Samar*. 1817 ; De Onkeloso ejusd. Parafihrasi Chalet. 1820 ; De Ver.!. Syr. N. T. um eritico, 1823; Bib/. Realwarterbuch, 1820, 3d ed. 3 vols. 1647-48; Pauli ad Galata! Epist. Latine vert. et pop!. annotal. illuser. 1827, sec. ed. without the Lat. version, 1828. Besides these Winer wrote many programmes on points of Biblical grammar and lexicography. Of great utility also is his I-Iand buck der Theolog. Literatur, 2 VO1S. yl ed. 1838 ; iste Erganzungsbej?, 1342.—W . L. A.