a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Friedrichs, Schleswig- Holstein, June 7, 1850. He studied at different universities took the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1874, and commenced his academical career at Jena in 1875. In 1880 he was made professor, and in 1883 doctor of theology. Punjer died May 13, 1885. He is the author of, Die Religionslehre Kant's (Jena, 1874): — De Michaelis Serveti Doctrina Commentatio Dogmatico-historica (1876): — Geschichte. der christlichen Religiosphilosophie seit der Reformation (Brunswick, 1880, 1883, 2 volumes): — Die Aufgaben des heutigemn Protestantismus (1885). Besides contributing to different encyclopaedic works and literary journals, he started in 1881 the Theologischer Jahresbericht, giving an annual review of all theological works published in German, French, English, Dutch, etc., a work indispensable to the student in spite of its many deficiencies. (B.P.)