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).
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