MOLTHER, mel'tiAr, MENRAD: Humanist and Reformer; b. at Augsburg in 1500; d. at Heilbronn Apr. 8, 1558. He received his first education in the school of Johann Pinicianus; went to Heidelberg in 1526, where he became a tutor for young noblemen, and also edited several works, some of which had been recently recovered, e.g., those of Alcuin, Avitus, Christian Drutmar, and W illimar Ebersbergiensis; he directed the Realistenburse, 1532; was called as preacher to Heilbronn to assist Johann Lachmann (q.v.) 1533, whom he succeeded in 1539; and in 1543 he arranged the church rules according to the pattern of Hall. Because of the threatening presence of the imperial troops, he advised, in 1548, the acceptance of the Interim (q.v.); but he continued to preach in a strictly Evangelical and anti-Roman spirit, without, however, being able to persuade the council to abolish the mass. His successor was Jacob Ratz (q.v.).

G. Bossert.

Bibliography: G. Bossert, in Bldtter far w¢rttembergieche Kirchengeschichte, 1887, pp. 57-61.

MOMBERT, JACOB ISIDOR: Protestant Episcopalian; b. at Cassel, Germany, Nov. 6, 1829. In early life he went to England, where he was engaged in business for a number of years, after which he studied both in England and at the universities of Leipsic and Heidelberg. He was ordered deacon in 1856 and in the following year went to Canada, where he was ordained priest. He was then curate of Trinity, Quebec (1857-59), curate (1859-60) and rector (1860-70) of St. James', Lancaster, Pa., and rector of St. John's, Dresden, Germany (1870-76), Christ Church, Jersey City, N. J. (1877-79), and St. John's, Passaic, N. J. (1879-82). In 1882 he retired from active parochial work, and since that time has been engaged in literary pursuits. He has translated F. A. Tholuck's "Commentary on the Psalms" (London 1856) and the commentary on the Catholic Epistles for the American Lange series (New York, 1867), edited William Tyndale's Five Books of Moses (1884), and has written: Faith Victorious: Account of the Venerable Dr. Johann Ebel , Late Archdeacon of the Old Town Church of Königsberg ire Prussia (1882); Handbook of the English Versions of the Bible (1883; new ed., 1907); Great

Lives: A Course of History in Biographies (Boston, 1886); History of Charles the Great (New York, 1888); Short History of the Crusades (1894); and Raphael's Sistine Madonna (1895).