LOSERTH, lo'zart, JOHANN: Austrian Protestant; b. at Fulneck (a village near Neutitschein, 26 m. e.n.e. of Prerau), Moravia, Sept. 1, 1846. Ids was educated at the University of Vienna (Ph.D., 1870), and after being a gymnasial professor in Vienna (187L-75) was professor. of general history at the newly founded University of Czernowitz until 1893, when he was called to his present position of professor of history at Graz. He has devoted himself especially to the study of early Bohemian history, the Wyclif and Hussite movements, and the history of Anabaptism and the Counter-Reformation. Among his numerous publications, special mention may be made of the following: Beiträge zur Geschichte der hussitischen Bewegung (5 parts, Vienna, 1877-94); Huns and Wiclif (Prague, 1884; Eng. transl. by M. J. Evans, Wydif and Hess, London, 1884); Die Stadt Waldshut und die vorderosterreichische Regierung 16Q31626 (Vienna, 1891); Der Anabaptismus in Tirol (1893); Btxlthasar Hubmaier urtd die Anfange der 1=Viedertaufe in M�hren (Brünn, 1893); Studien zur englischen Kirchenpolitik im vierzehnten Jahrhundert (2 parts, Vienna, 1894-1907); Der Communismus der mahrischen Wiedertaufer im sechzehnten Jahrhundert (1895); Die steirische ReligionsPazifikation (Graz, 1896); Der Sankt Pauler-Fornxular, Briefs and Urkunden aus d:~r Zeit König Wenzels 11., (Prague, 1896); Erzherzog Karl 11. und die Frtzge der Errichtung sires Klosterrates für Inner6sterreich (Vienna, 1897); Die Reformation and Gegenreformation in den innerosterreichischen Landern im sechzehnten Jahrhundert (Stuttgart, 1898); Die Salzburger Provinzialsynode von 161,9 (Vienna, 1898); and Geschichte des spateren MitteTalters, 1197-1.¢9Q (Munich, 1903). He has likewise edited for the Wycliffe Society Wyclif's De ecclesid (London, 1886); Sermones (4 vols., 1887-90); De etteharistia tractatus major (1892); Opus Evangelicum (4 vols., 189rr96); De eivili dominio (4 vols., 1900-04), De potestate papee (1907); and Dos Archiv des Hawses Stubenberg (Graz, 1908) as well as the collection of acts and correspondence for the history of the Counter-Reformation in Inner Austria under the Archdukes Karl II. and Ferdinand II. in the Fortes rerum Austriacarum, vols. 1., lviii., lx. (Vienna, 1898-1907).
LOT: The son of Haran and nephew of Abram.
According to the story in Genesis, in his migration
from Haran to Canaan and Egypt, Abram was
accompanied by Lot
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The judgment is described as a rain of fire and
brimstone (cf. Pa. xi. 6;
As touching the entire scope and content of the story of Lot, the same is no product of Jewish fancy, but rather arose from the tradition which was a common heritage of Abraham's people, and one very tenacious of local recollections. The whole tenor of the relation harmonizes with that patriarchal era when those simpler Semitic pastoral tribes contrasted to advantage, especially in mat ters of hospitality, with the inhabitants of the Ca naanitic towns; and the most devout of them were supposed to enjoy more immediate conversation with the deity than was later the case with the people of God themselves. For description of the region see Moab; Palestine.
Bibliography: The commentaries on Genesis deal with the subject, as do some of the works on Old Testament theology. Consult: DD, iii. 150-152; EB, iii. 2824-25; JE, viii. 185-186. The Koran has many passages ',,w"hich embody traditions, partly of Talmudic Origin, regarding Lot.
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