LODENSTEIN, lo'den-stain, JODOCUS VAN: Reformed preacher and ascetic; b. at Delft Feb. 6, 1620; d. at Utrecht Aug. 6, 1677. He studied theology at Utrecht under Voetius, Schotanus and De Maets, and in 1642 went to Franeker in order to devote himself to the study of Oriental languages under the direction of Coccejus. In 1644 he became preacher at Zoetermeer near Delft, in 1650 at Sluis in Flanders, and in 1653 at Utrecht, where he labored until his death. He was the originator of a reformation of life and morals in the Netherlands, and was thus for the Dutch and German Reformed Church what Spener soon after became in the German Evangelical-Lutheran Church, and by the same analogy he was followed by a party of "Lodensteinians," who kept aloof from the external life of the Church without formally separating themselves, unlike the adherents of Labadie, who were outspoken dissenters. He was a reformer of practical life, not of doctrine. The Netherlands were at that time exceedingly prosperous, and the popular mind seemed to be entirely absorbed by secular pursuits. Lodenstein, however, made a wide-spread impression by his preaching, by his writings, and by his spiritual songs. Of his sermons many were published and often reprinted in various collections, such as Geestelyke Opwekker (Amsterdam, 1701); Vervalle Christendom (Utrecht, 1711); Heerlijkheid van een waar Christelijk leven (Amsterdam, 1711); Boetpredikatien over Jerem. xlv (Utrecht, 1779). Of his important ascetic works must be mentioned especially Weegschale der onvolmaacktheden (Utrecht, 1664) and Beschouwinge van Zion (ib. 1674-76). A collection of his spiritual songs is in Uytspanningen en andere Gedigten (ib. 1676).

(S. D. van Veen.)

Bibliography: P. I. Proost, Jodocus van Lodenstein, Amsterdam, 1880; M. Goebel, Geschichte des christlichen Lebens in der rheinisch-westfalischen evangelischen Kirche, ii. 160-180, Coblentz, 1852; H. L. J. Heppe, Geschichte des Pietismus und der Mystik in der reformirten Kirshe, Leyden, 1879; A. Ritschl, Geschichte des Pietismus, i. 152 sqq., Bonn, 1880.

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LOEBE, lob'e, AUGUST JULIUS: German Lutheran; b, at Altenburg (24 m. s. of Leipsic) Jan. 8, 1805; d. at Rasepbas (a suburb of Altenburg) Mar. 27, 1900. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native city and at the universities of Jena (1825-27; Ph.D., 1831) and Leipsic (1827- 1828), after which he conducted a private school in Altenburg until 1839. Becoming deeply interested in Gothic, he determined on the first critical edition of the translation of Ulfilas (q.v.) in collaboration with Hans Conon von der Gabelentz; and for this purpose he visited Upsala in 1834 to inspect the famous Codex Argenteus, and in the following year went to Wolfenbuttel with Von der Gabelentz to study the Codex Carolinus of Ulfilas. The edition, which appeared under the title Ulfilas: Veteris et Novi Testamenti versionis Gothicae fragmenta quae supersunt (3 vols., Leipsic and AItenburg, 1836-46), was accompanied by Lobe's Beiträge zur Textberichtigung und Erklarung des Skeireines (Altenburg, 1839) and supplemented by the collaborators' Nachschrift zu der Ausgabe des Ulfilas (Leipsic, 1860).

In 1839 Lobe became pastor at Rasephas, where the remainder of his life was to be spent. Here he contributed largely to Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, and practically edited the fourth and fifth editions of the work (1857-64; 1867-72), as well as the three additional year-books incorporated in the same encyclopedia (1865-73). He also did most of the work on the edition planned by Preuss of the Loci, theologici of Johann Gerhard (9 vols., Berlin and Leipsic, 1863-85). His third field of activity was the local and ecclesiastical history of Altenburg, represented by his Geschichtliche Beschreibung der Residenzstadt Altenburg und ihrer Umgebung (Altenburg, 1841), and the completion, in collaboration with his eldest son, Ernst Conon Lobe, of Sachse's Altenburger Kirchengallerie (3 vols., ib. 1886-91).