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Arts in 1717, when he publicly defended his thesis ude
Kinæis,” i.e. the Kenites. In 1718 he set out on a visit
to foreign countries (Hamburg, England), everywhere
seeking the acquaintance of famous men and
studying in the libraries. After his return he settled at
Kiel, where he lectured at the University and published
his treatise, M de Deo ex Voce Animalium
demon-strando.”1
This essay aroused some hostile criticism, and its author
was accused of being an adversary of Wolff and his
philosophy, and denying that the soul of man was necessary
for the formation of words. Some years later Murray
went to Haddeby1 2 in Schleswig as pastor, whence he
removed in 1735, having been called to fill the office of
second pastor to the German congregation of Stockholm.
Here he wrought continuously and with much acceptance
until his death in 1771. He had been made pastor
primarius in 1739, and Doctor of Divinity (Upsala) in
I7S2-s
The spirit in which he lived and educated his children
is best seen in one of his numerous letters, written either
in German or in Latin as the humour took him, and
addressed to his four sons, who all became famous in
their various professions.
He writes on the 7th of August, 1750, to his eldest son,
1 “ How a God can be proved from the Voice of the Animals,” a
sufficiently curious title.
2 Not Haddeburg, as in the Sv. Biogr. Lexikon. The church of
Haddeby is one of the most ancient in the north of Germany.
8 Andreas Murray was not a prolific writer. Besides several academical
essays and a number of sermons, he wrote Die Wahrheit und Gottlichkeit
des christbchen Glaubens (The Truth and Divineness of Christian Faith),
i.-vi., Hamburg, 1733-35 ; Erkl’drung des Galaterbriefes, Leipzig, 1739;
and an Instruction for the Proper Use of the Catechism, Stockholm,
J 737-
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