WOBBERMIN, veb'er-min, ERNST GUSTAV GEORG: German Protestant; b. at Stettin Oct. 27, 1869. He was educated at the universities of Halle (1888-90) and Berlin (1890-94; Ph.D., 1894; lic. theol., 1895), and, after spending the year 1896-1897 in travel in Greece, became privat-docent for systematic theology and the philosophy of religion at Berlin, and in 1907 went to Breslau as professor of the philosophy of religion. He has written Religionsgeschichtliche Studien zur Frage der Beeinflussung des Urchristentums durch das antike Mysterienwesen (Berlin, 1896); Theologie'und Metaphysik (1901); Der christliche Gottesglaube in seinem Verhdltnis zur gegenwdrtigen Philosophie (1902); Aufgabe and Bedeutung der Religionspsyehologie . (1910); Monismus and Monotheismus (1911); and translated into German W. James, Varieties of Religious Experience (Leipsic, 1907).

WODROW, ROBERT: Historian of the Scottish Church; b. at Glasgow 1679; d. at Eastwood (3 m. s.w. of Glasgow) Mar. 21, 1734. He was graduated in arts at Glasgow, studied theology there, and served as university librarian from 1697 till 1701. Then he became tutor in the family of a relative, Sir John Maxwell of Pollock. He was licensed by the presbytery of Paisley in Jan., 1703, and in October was ordained minister of Eastwood, where he remained till his death, notwithstanding repeated calls to other spheres. Wodrow early gave all his spare time to the collection of materials for Scottish church history; but he also discharged the duties of his profession with zeal and fidelity, and took a deep interest in science and literature. After the accession of George I. he was active in the unsuccessful attempt to repeal the patronage act passed in the reign of (queen Anne, but he advocated loyal compliance with that act so long as it remained the law of the land. As a historian he is trustworthy on the whole, though not altogether free from prejudice and credulity. His published works include The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution (2 Vols., Edinburgh, 1721-22; 2 ed., 4 vols., Glasgow, 1829-1830); Collections upon the Lives of the Reformers and most Eminent Ministers of the Church of Scotland (published by the Maitland Club, 2 vols., Glasgow, 1834=45); Analecta; or Materials for cc History of Remarkable Providences, mostly relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians (for the Maitland Club, 4 vols., 1842-43); Life of Alexander Seaton (1829); Life of Robert Bruce (1843); Selections from yhodrow's Biographical Collections; Divines of the Northeast of Scotland (for the New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1890). In 1841 the Wodrow Society was established at Edinburgh to publish works of " early writers of the reformed church of Scotland "; it was dissolved in 1847 after publishing twelve works.

W. Lee†. Revised by Henry Cowan.

Bibliography: Biographical material is found in the prefatory Notice prefixed to the Analecta, Glasgow, 1843; in the Correspondence, ed. McCrie, 1842-43; a Memoir by R. Burns in the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, ib. 1829; in R. Lippe's "Introduction" to the Selections; and in Wodrow's Life of James Wodrow, ed. Campbell, Edinburgh, 1828. Consult also DNB, 1xii.280-281.