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Eber, Paul

(1511–69). B. Kitzingen, Bavaria; educ. Nürnberg and Wittenberg; prof. Lat. 1541, Heb. 1557 Wittenberg; castle preacher, later city preacher and gen. supt. of electorate 1558; assoc. with Melanchthon; poet. Hymns include “Helft mir Gott's Güte preisen”; “Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir”; “Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein”; “Herr Jesu Christ, wahr'r Mensch und Gott.” See also Altenburg Colloquy.

C. H. Sixt, Dr. Paul Eber, der Schüler, Freund und Amtsgenosse der Reformatoren (Heidelberg, 1843); T. Pressel, Paul Eber, in Leben und ausgewählte Schriften der Väter und Begründer der lutherischen Kirche, ed. J. Hartmann et al., VIII in vol. 4 (Elberfeld, 1862), separate pagination 1–108; G. Buchwald, D. Paul Eber, der Freund, Mitarbeiter und Nachfolger der Reformatoren (Leipzig, 1897).


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