Bible Encyclopedias
Balle, Nikolai Edinger

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a distinguished Lutheran theologian of Denmark, was born in 1744 in Zealand became in 1772 Professor of Theology at Copenhagen, and in 1783 bishop of Zealand. He died in 1816. He wrote, Theses theologicae (Copenh. 1776), and A Manual of Religious Doctrines (Copenh. 1781); he was also the editor of a magazine for modern church history of Den. mark (Magazin for den nyere danske Kirkehistorie, Copenh. 1792-94, 2 vols.).