MALLET, FRIEDRICH LUDWIG: German pulpit-orator; b. at Braunfels (37 m. e.n.e. of Coblenz) Aug. 4, 1793; d. at Bremen May 5, 1865. He was educated in the universities of Herborn and Tübingen, and during his student days served in the Napoleonic wars of 1814-15. In Dec., 1815, he became assistant in St. Michael's Church, Bremen, and succeeded the aged pastor, Buch, two Years later. In 1827 he was chosen third pastor at the large church of St. Stephen in Bremen, where he officiated for the remainder of his life, becoming first pastor after the deaths of his superiors, Müller and Pletzer.

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Mallet was preeminently a preacher of simplicity and orthodoxy, as may be seen from the collection of his sermons and addresses edited by his son at Bremen in 1867. He was also active as an editor, and in 1832 founded at Bremen the Bremen Kirchen bote, which ran until 1847, when it was replaced by the Brewer Schliissel (1848-50) and the Brewer Post (1856-60). He polemized against the Roman Catholics and against rationalism, to both of which he was bitterly opposed. In this spirit he wrote Ueber den Heiligenr urtd Bilderdienat in den romi schen Kirche (Bremen, 1842), Zeugniase (2 parts, 1845), Gestkndnias (1345), and Memoiren sense Weltmannea (1847). From 1848 to 1852 he was involved in a controversy with the pantheistic pas tor, Rodolf Dulon, against whom he wrote several pamphlets and who was finally dismissed from his position. Mallet's activity in all movements for Christian union and missions was untiring. In 1819 he assisted in the establishment of the first Bremen missionary society, and in 1834 in the foundation of the first young men's association and a society for the dissemination of Christian tracts, while in 1844 he devoted much of his energy to the furtherance of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein. His principal writings, in addition to those already mentioned, are: Die Weisen ants dew 141orgenlande (Bremen, 1852); Passions- und F'estpredigten (Frankfort, 1859); Altea and Neuea (Bremen, 1864); and the posthumous Netcea and Alter; edited by his son (Bremen, 1868).

J. F. Iken†.

Bibliography: C. A. Wilkens, Friedrich Mallet ~ sine Biographic, Bremen, 1872 (a model biography); H. Hupfeld, Friedrich Ludwig Mallet, ib. 1885; W. H. Meurer, Zur Erinnerun9 an Friedrich Ludwig Mallet, ib. 1872.