DORSCHEUS, JOANNES GEORGIUS (DORSCHE, J. G.), one of the most distinguished Lutheran theologians of the sixteenth century. He was born at Strasburg, Nov. 19, 1597. After the comple tion of his preparatory studies, he entered upon the work of the Christian ministry as pastor at Ensis heim, in the year 1622. In 1627, he was called to the chair of theology in the university of Strasburg, and in 1654 to a similar post in the university of Rostock. He died Dec. 25, 1659. Of his nume rous works, those which were published during his lifetime belong, for the most part, to polemical theology. His biblical writings are, with scarcely an exception, posthumous works ; and the num ber of these, with the dates of their publication, some of them many years after his death, may be not unfairly taken as evidence of the great extent of his influence and reputation. The following are the most important of them Eiblia nnmerata ; sett index specialis in veins et novnin lestamentunz ad sinpila osmium capita et commata, Fran cofnrti, 1674, fol. This was edited by J. Gramb sins, and may be described as a work giving, in stead of annotations on the text of Scripture, refer ences to passages in various authors, principally the Fathers, which elucidate the verse or paragraph. 2. Ad entheas 7esaice praphelias, earunzque singzda capita analysis ex aperose collatis pone multis optimis glee tam ebrals quam Christianis interpretibus, adeo sat commentarii Manz prostare possit, prcenzissa ubique apodixi pcenitentiam urgente institute, Hamb. 1703, 4to. 3. In quatuor evazzgelistas com
mentarizts, per solidam apodixin analysis, exegesis, harmoniam item ac parallelismum verum Sel2S11)12 ex hibens, falsum refulans, Hamb. 1706, 4to. This is the most valuable of his exegetical works, and is edited from notes of his academical prelections found amongst his papers. Buddreus (Isagoge, 1472) thus characterises it : Nervose breviter que auctor multa complexus est, tulia que simul sub ministrat qum apud alios inter longas verborum ambages frustra requiras.' Prefixed to the com mentary is a preface by the editor, J. F. Fechtius, in which the life and writings of Dorscheus are re viewed at length. 4. In epistolanz Paulli ad Ebraos commentarius, Francof. et Lips., 1717, 4to. This also appears to have been derived from notes of his lectures ; the latter part, from the middle of chap. x. to the end of the epistle, is by Christopher Pfaff. 5. Fragmentum commentarii in epistalam yudec, Francof. et Lips., 1700, 4to, along with which is given the commentary of B. H. Gebhard on Jude. 6. Z7p-ip.ara in epistolasi. et ii. 7oannis, Rostochii, 1697, 4to. Of the authenticity of this work some doubt is intimated in the preface by the editor J. N. Quistorpius.—S. N.