ABRAHAM, a celebrated Lutheran divine, was born at Mohrungen in Brunswick in 1612. He studied at Rostock and Königsberg, and was professor of theology at Wittenberg when he died in 1686. He took a promi- nent part in the Socinian and other controversies of the day, but especially distinguished himself in the syncretistic con- troversy with Calixtus. He carried on his disputes with so great vehemence that his Historia Syncretistica was confis- cated by the elector of Saxony.