MOELLER, msl'er, CHRISTEN VILHELM VICTOR: Danish bishop; b. in Copenhagen May 29, 1845. He was educated at the Aalborg Skole (B.A., 1863) and the University of Copenhagen (candidate in theology, 1868); became chaplain in Ringsted and Benl6se, 1869, and in Copenhagen, 1874, in the latter place instituting services for children at Bethesda, 1877; was made censor, 1883, and later became examiner in religious branches at teachers' examinations; edited the weekly Saede manden, 1879,83; became provost at Copenhagen, 1883, in Gamborg on FUnen, 1891, at Slagelse, 1896; was appointed bishop of Aalborg, 1905. His most important works (text-books) are: Bibelhistorie for Seminarier og hbjere Skoler (1891); B4elhistorie for Folkeskolen (1892); Larebog i Bibelhistorien for Elementarakoler (5th ed.,1896); Den f6rste Vejledning i Luthem line Katekiamus (1897). Along exegetical lines mention may be made of Salomos Hbjsany i bibelsk Sammenh4ng forklard (1896); Guda Oprinde lige Aabenbarbng. En Fortolkning for ldge Kriatne til fdrate Mosebogs tre forste Kapaler, sarlig afpasset efter Ldreres og Larerdnders Tar» i Fdkeekolen (1892).
MOELLER, ERNST WILHELM: German church historian, son of Johann Friedrich Moller (q.v.); b. at Erfurt Oct. 1, 1827; d. at Kiel Jan. 8, 1892. He studied at the cathedral gymnasium in Magdeburg, at the University of Berlin, at Halle, and at Bonn. Returning home, he preached, held Bible classes in the Young Men's Association, and occupied himself with a thorough study of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. For the continuation of these studies he returned to Halle, where he published Gregorii Nysseni dodrina de hominia natura et illustravit et cum Origeniann comparavit (Halle, 1854), on the basis of which he established himself in 1854 as privat-docent in Halle, just at the time when Baur and Zeller had started their revolutionary methods in theological science, and he was led to oppose their methods and conclusions. He lectured on the New Testament, on the early history of the Church, on the history of dogma, and later also on the church history of the Middle Ages. In 1862 he was called to the congregation of Grumbach, a little village in the ecclesiastical district of Langensalza, and about 1869 he received a similar position in Oppin near Halle. In 1873 he was appointed professor of church history in Kiel, where he lectured on church history and the history of dogmas for almost twenty years. He distinguished himself not so much by special researches in church history as by a comprehensive grasp of its whole sphere, which enabled him to become one of the most efficient and many-sided collaborators on the second edition of the Herzog RealeneyklopAdie (for which he wrote sixty-three articles, mainly on the history of dogma in the early Church), and one of the moat respected contributors to theological periodicals. Theologically and ecclesiastically he was a representative of the German " mediating theology." His first comprehensive work was Ge sehiehte der Kosnwlogis ix der griechischen Kirche bis ayf Origenes (Halle, 1860). But his principal work is his thorough and scholarly life of Osiander which appeared as the fifth part in Lebea and ausgecaahl6e Schnftea der Vater and Begrinder der lmtherischen Kirche (Elberfeld, 1870). In the later years of his life he published his LehrWch der Kirchengeschichte (vol. i., Die alts Kirche, 1889, 2d ed., by H. von Schubert, 1902; vol. ii., DaB Miuelalter, 1891, 2d ed., 1893; vol. iii., Reformation snd Ge-
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Bibliography: ZKG, sii (1892), 484 sqq.
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