OSIANDER [prop. ILAEMANN], ANDREAS, was born at Guntzenhausen 19th Dec. 1498. Having studied at Leipzig, Altenburg, and Ingold stadt, where he made great proficiency in the an cient languages, especially the Hebrew, and in mathematics, he became teacher of Hebrew in the Augustine monastery at Nuremberg ; and having soon after joined the Reformation movement, he was, in 1522, appointed evangelical pastor of the church of St. Laurence in that city. In 1549 he became professor of theology at Konigsberg, where his peculiar views on some essential points of Chris tian doctrine involved him in continual controversies and troubles. He died suddenly 17th October 1552. Whilst at Nuremberg he prepared his Ilarmonia Evangelica (Bas. 1537, and often since), in which he endeavours to reconcile the four evange lists, on the assumption that each has observed chronological order in his narrative [HARMONIES].
Of Osiander's descendants, two have appeared as authors on subjects connected with Biblical litera ture. His son Lucas, born 16th Dec. 1534, died 17th Sept. 1604, was general superintendent at Stuttgart, and was the author of a Latin commen tary on the Bible in 3 vols. fol. (Tub. 1589-9o, and often since); in which, taking the Vulgate as his text, he aims at the critical emendation of it, and at collecting and condensing the exegetical remarks of the best commentators. Another descendant, Johann Adam—born 3d Dec. 1622, died 26th Oct. 1697—was professor of theology at Tiibingen, and wrote Comment. in Pentateneham, 3 vols. fol., Tub. 1676-77 ; Comment. in yosuam, fol., Tub. 168i ; Comm. in Libb. Samuelis, fol., Stutt. 1687. —W. L. A.