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and Jvifl on theology, and gave a double proof of his GE'RKkSDORF, a town of Germany, in the arch¬ 
knowledge by two publications ; for in 1717 he wrote duchy of Auhria : three miles ea(l-fouth-eafl of Creins. 
his learned dillertation, De Larium (3 Penatium origine, GE'RESTADT, a town of Norway, in the biihopric 
whicli Maflbn thought worthy of being inferted in the of Aggerhuus: thirty-two miles fouth-well of Tonlber‘^. 
fifteenth part of his Hijloire critique de la Republique des GERES'TICUS, a harbour of Teios in Ionia. Liry. 
Lettrrs-, and two years after he defended, under Sclium- GERESTO', a town of the ifiand of Negropont ;■ 
acher, his thefis De Opera Minijlerii Evanqelici adumbrata fifteen miles fouth of Carifto. 
fob anblemate Collebiionis qutt fit tempore mijjis. In 1719 he GER'FALCON, y. the brovvn and the white. See 
went to Utrecht, where hediligently attended the lectures the article Fai-CO, vol. vii. p. 189. 
of Burinan, Alphen, and Lampen ; and before the end GFIR'GAR, a towm of Spain, in the province of 
of that year deRaded a theological thefis. Ad Hiftoriam Grenada : ten miles Ibuth-foiith-wefl of Purchena. 
Pauli Apqftoli. In 1722 he finilhed his academical Itiu GERGEFAL'VA, a town of Tranfilvania; fixteen 
dies and repaired to the Hague, where in the fame year miles wefi-north-weft of Hermenfiadt. 
he was admitted a candidate for holy orders. He then GHRGE'SA, in ancient geography, a Transjordan - 
vifited the moll celebrated academies of Germany, as town, no otherwife known than by the Gergefcni of St. 
well as the principal towns in Swilferland, Holland, and Matthew', and Gergtfcei of Mofes ; i’uppoled to have 
France, and formed an acquaintance with the 111011 fiood in the neighbourhood of Gadara and near the Sea 
learned men of that period. In 1726 he was invited to of Tiberias. The Gcrgefoi, one of the feven ancient 
Duilburg to be profelFor of theology; he therefore took people of Canaan, lels frequently mentioned than the 
the degree of doifor in that faculty at Utrecht, and en- roll, appear to have been lefs confiderable and more ob- 
tered on his academic office with an oration, De DoEia in feme : their name is from Girgaf, one of Canaan’s fons. 
Theologia ignorantia. Two years after, lie obtained the See GAD.ARENns, 
profelTorffiip of church hiftory ; and on this occafion GKRGE.SE'NFiS, (country of). See Gadarenes. 
YwhWfhtdt di dL\Stvt.a.X\Qf\, De Ufo Eucharflice medico. Hav. GER'Gri'HUM, in ancient geography, a town near 
ing now attained a confiderable degree of celebrity, the Cumae in ^^iolia. Pliny. 
curators of the univerfity of Groningen, on the tranfla. GERGO'BIA, a tow 11 of Gaul. Ctefar. 
tion of Voigt to Utrecht, in 1735, were induced to invite GliR'HARD (Ephraim), a German lawyer and phi- 
liim to the theological chair, which he accepted ; and lofbpher, born at Gierldorf, in the duchy of Brieg, in 
49n the iith of June the following year, he delivered his Silelia, in 1682. He became advocate to the court and 
introdubtory oration, De UnElione qua Fidcles omnia docct. regency of Weimar, and afterwards filled the chair of 
The fame year he was elefted a member of the royal profelfor of law in the univerfity of Altdorf, where he 
academy of fcieiices at Berlin. Gerdes continued to died, in 1718, when only thirty-feven years of age. He 
difchaige his duty, both as a profefibr and preacher, was the author of feveral treatifes on jurifprudence and 
till the year 1752 ; when a diforder in the bread, with philofophy, of which the moll important is entitled, 
w'hich he had been affebled in his youth, obliged him to Delineaiio Philofcphia ralionalis-, to which is fubjoined an 
give over preaching, and to attend only to the profelfor- excellent dillertation, De pracipuis Sapientia Impediment. 
fhip of chiirch-hillory ; but his weaknefs increafing, he tis, See. 
died on the nth of February, 1765. His principal GER'H-ARDSBRON, a town of Germany, in the 
works are; i. Vefpera Vadenfes, fve Diatriba Theologicot^ circle of F’canconia, and principality of Anfpach : 
philologica de Hyperbolis ex Scriptoribus faerie eliminandis, twenty-eight miles weft of Anfpach. 
UtrecTit, 1727, 4to. t. Obfervationes Mifcellaneaad quadam G E'RINGSWALDE, a town of Germany, in the 
locaSS.inquibusIiiforiaPatriarcharumillvf ratur,Dif.l\l. circle of Upper Saxony, and circle of Leipfic; four 
Duilburg, 1729-1733, 4to. 3. Mifcellmea Dui/burgenfa, miles north-eaft of Rochlitz. 
tid incrementum Rei Litcraria omnis pracipue vero Eruditionis GER'IZIM, or Garizim, a mountain of Paieftinc, 
Theologka publicata. Amll. & Diiilb. 1732-1738, 4 vols. fituated in Samaria near the plain of Moreh- This 
8vo. 4. Mifeellanca Groningiana, vol. i, Duilb. 1736 ; mountain and Ebal were appointed by Mofes for the 
vol. ii. iii. iv. Groning. 1737-1745, 8vo. This is a con- firfl promulgation of the law', upon the Ifraelites’ en- 
tinuation of the preceding work. 5. Florilegium Hiflo- trance into Canaan ; whereon the bleffings for obedience 
rico-criticum librorum variorum, cui multa fimul fciiu jucunda andthecurfesfordifobediencew'erefe.verally pronounced. 
interfperguntur, Hiftoriam omnem l.iterarium & cum primis Re- The bhfing was attached to Gerizim, which from that 
formaticuis ecclefafkurn illufirantia. This Florilegium ap- circiimltance feems to have gained a kind of religious 
peared firlt in his Mifcellanea Groningiana, vol. ii. and iii. veneration from that period ; for it is faid the temple of 
but was loon after printed byitfelf, at Groningen, 1740, the Samaritans was afterwards erebled upon it, which 
in 8vo. and enlarged and improved, in 1747, 8vo. It by order of Antiochus was dedicated to Jupiter, in the 
forms an excellent fupplement to Voigt’s days of the Maccabees, when it is mentioned by the 
rum rariorum. 6. Compendium Theologia dogntatka, ibid, name of Gar/zfw. Defei. xi.&jcxvii. viii. 30, &c. 
1734, 8 VO. 7. Exercitationum Academicarum, Librini. quh 2 Macc. vi. 2. 
bus varia facra, turn ad Hiftoriam Patriarcharum turn ad GER'KIN, yi A fmall cucumber. 
JuadaiasAniiquitatcs,E 3 c. fpeilantiaillufrantur, Amfl.i73S, GER'LACH (Stephen), a learned German lutheran 
4to. with a head of the author. 8. IntroduEHo in Hifto- divine, born at Knitlingen, in Swabia, in 1546. His 
riam Evangelii feculi XVI. pqjftm per Europam renovati, &c. early education he received in his native place ; and, in 
Groningen, 1744-.1752, 4 voTs. 4to. 9. Meletemata facra 1563, he was lent to the univerfity of Tubingen, where 
fve Exegefs £? fogoge, in Cap. xv. Ep. i, ad Corinthm, he dillinguilhed himfelf by his diligence in his lludies, 
Groning. 1759, 4to. .and in 1566 proceeded to his degree of bachelor of arts 
GER'DIN, a town of Ruflia, in the government of with great applaufe. Being foon afterwards obliged 
Perm, on the Colva : 152 miles north of Perm. Lat. to withdraw from this univerfity, on account of its being 
59. 40. N. Ion. 74. E. Ferro. vifited with the plague, he went to Ellingen, where, iu 
GEREMSCHANGKAI'A, a town of Ruffia, In the 1567, he was admitted to the degree of dodor in philo« 
government of Upha: thirty-fix miles well-north-well fophy. In 1573, the emperor Maximilian II. having 
of Bugulma. appointed baron Urgrad h.is ambalfador to the Tuvkilh 
GERENSCHANG'SKOI, a fortrefs of Ruffian Si- court, Gerlach was made choice of for his chaplain; 
beria, in the government of Kolivan : 240 miles fouth- and accompanied the ambalfador to Conllantinople. In 
fouth-wellof Kolivan. Lat. 50.45. N. Ion, 97, E, Ferro, this city he continued upwards of five years, acquaint- 
GE'RENT, [ jgrrm, Lat. ] Carrying; bearing, ing himfelf v/ith the manners and religion of theTurks 
GEREN'ZA. See Cerenza. and of the Greeks, ^pd cultivating the friendfiiip of the • 
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