AUGUSTI, JOHANN CHRISTIAN WILHELM. - German Protestant theologian, b. 27 Oct. 1771 at Eschenbergen, d. at Coblenza 28 Apr. 1841. In 1803 he became professor of theology at Breslavia, and in 1819 at Bonn. He was one of the most learned German Protestant theologians of the nineteenth century, especially distinguished in Christian archaeology.
He published many writings, the best known of which are the following: Die Apocryphen des Alten Testaments (Leipzig 1806); Grundriss einer historisch-britischen Einleitung in das Alte Testament (ibid. 1806); Dogmengeschichte (ibid. 1808); System der christlichen Dogmatik nach dem Lehrbegriff der evangelischen Kirche (ibid. 1809); Lehrbuch der christlichen Altertümer (ibid. 1819); Denkwürdigkeiten aus der christlichen Archäologie (12 vols., ibid. 1817-31); Handbuch der christlichen Archäologie (3 vols., ibid. 1837); Beiträge zur christlichen Kunstgeschichte und Liturgie (2 vols., ibid. 1841).