MORUS, SAMUEL FRIEDRICH NATHANAEL, an eminent German professor of the last century, was born Nov. 30, 1736, at Laubau, in Upper Lusatia. He entered the university of Leipzig in his nineteenth year. He became a devoted pupil of Ernesti, and under the guidance of this celebrated master of exegesis laid the foundations of his future usefulness and renown. In 1768 he was appointed professor of philosophy at Leip zig. In 1771 he was chosen to fill the chair of the Greek and Latin languages, and in 1782 he was called to fill the vacancy in the theological faculty occasioned by the death of Ernesti. He died Nov. II, 1792. It was as a teacher rather than as a writer that the influence of Moms was chiefly felt. His works are mostly posthumous publications, issued under the editorship of men who had been his pupils, one of whom fairly esti mates the position of Morus when he says that the science of Hermeneutics ab Ernestio rcformata,' was a Moro exculta et dilucidius explicata.' His principal Biblical works are—I. Dissertationes Theo logica et editio altera, Lips. 179S ; 2.
Super Hernzeneutica N. T. Acroases Academicce. Editioni aptavit, priefatione et additamentis in struxit H. C. A. Eichstadt, Lips. 1797-1802, Svo. This work may be best described as lectures upon the institutes of Ernesti. 3. Prtelectiones in Luca Evangelium, ed. C. A. Donat Lips. 1795, Svo. 4. Recitationes izz Epangelium 7oannis, ed. Th. J. Dindorf, Lips. iSoS, Svo. 5. Versio et explica tio Actorum Apostolorum, ed. G. J. Dindorf, Lips. 1794. 6. Pralectiones in Epistolam Pauli ad Re manes ; cum ejusdem veisione Latina, locorumque quoruna'aut N. T. a'ijicilioruni interpretatione, edidit I. T. T. Holzapfel, Lips. 1794, Svo. 7. Acroases in Epistolas Paulinas ad Galatas et Ephe sios, Lips. 1795. S. Prolectiones in yacobi et Petri epistolas, ed. C. A. Donat, Lips. 1794. 9. Praz lectiones exegetica in tees yoannis epistolas cum nova earwzdem paraphrasi _Latina, cura C. A. Hempel, Lips. 1797, Svo. so. Commentarius exegetico-his toricus in seam theologies Christiana' ed. C. A. Hempel, 2 vols., Sax. 179S, Svo.