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Christian Frederick Boerner (6 November 1683 – 19 November 1753), professor of theology at
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. Boerner was born in
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, and lived most of his life in Leipzig. Boerner had two sons, Christian Frederic, and Frederic († 1761), who were both physicians. Boerner published, from 1728 to 1734, a complete edition of the works of
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in 22 volumes. He published in 1709 an edition of Le Long's ''Bibliotheca Sacra'' at Antwerp in two volumes, with corrections and additions. In 1705 Boerner possessed the manuscript of the New Testament, which is known as
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.Alexander Chalmers, ''The General Biographical Dictionary'' (London 1812), Vol. 4, pp. 508-509.


Works

# ''De exulibus Graecis iisdemque litteratum in Italia instauratoribus'' Leipzig 1704. # ''De ortu atque progressu Philosophiae moralis'', Leipzig, 1707. # ''De Socrate, singuli boni ethici exemplo'', Leipzig, 1707. # ''De Lutheri actis anno 1520'', Leipzig, 1720. # ''De actis Lutheri anno 1521'', Leipzig, 1721. # ''Institutiones theologiae symbolicae'', Leipzig, 1751. # ''Dissertationes sacrae'', Leipzig, 1752.


References


Further reading

* Alexander Chalmers, ''The General biographical dictionary'' (London 1812), Vol. 4, pp. 508–509.


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Boerner, Christian Frederick
at ''The General Biographical Dictionary'' (London 1812), pp. 508–509.] {{DEFAULTSORT:Boerner, Christian Frederick 1685 births 1753 deaths German scholars 18th-century German Protestant theologians German male non-fiction writers 18th-century German male writers