Friedrieh Wilhelm Karl Umbreit, a German Protestant theologian, born at Sonneborn, Gotha, April 11, 1795, died in Heidelberg, April 26, 1860. He studied theology at Göttingen, especially under Eichhorn, and wrote a prize essay, Commentatio Historiam Emirorum-al-Omrah ex Abulfeda exhibens (Göttingen, 1816). In 1820 he was appointed extraordinary professor of theology and philosophy in Heidelberg, in 1823 ordinary professor of philosophy, and in 1829 ordinary professor of theology. His works include Lied der Liebe (Göttingen, 1820); Uebersetzung und Auslegung des Buches Hiob (Heidelberg, 1824); Gommentar über die Sprüche Salomos (Heidelberg, 1826); Ghristliche Erbauung aus dem Psalter (Hamburg, 1835); Grundtöne des Alten Testaments (Heidelberg, 1843); and Gommentar uber die Propheten des Alten Testaments (4 vols., Hamburg, 1841-6), his principal work. He was also, with his friend Dr. Ullmann, editor of the Studien und Kritiken, the principal theological quarterly of Protestant Germany.