ARNOLDUS, GOTHOFREDUS, pastor and inspector of the churches of Perleberg, and historiographer to the king of Prussia, was born at Annaburg, in the mountains of Misnia, in 1666. He was a zealous defender of the Pietists, a sect among the German Protestants, and composed a great number of religious works, particularly an Ecclesiastical History, which exposed him to the resentment of the divines, and another giving an account of the doc-
trines and manners from the first ages, in which he frequently animadverts upon Cave's Primitive Christianity. He died in 1714.