STUCKENBERG, John Henry Wilburn, clergyman, born in Bramsche, Hanover, Germany, 6 January, 1835. He emigrated in early life to the United States, and was graduated at Wittenberg college, Springfield, Ohio, in 1857, after which he returned to Germany to study theology in the universities of Gottingen, Berlin, and Tubingen. He was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1860, and held pastoral Charges in Iowa and Pennsylvania, besides officiating in 1862-'3 as chaplain of the 45th Pennsylvania volunteers. He was professor of theology at Wittenberg college from 1873 till 1880, and since that time has been pastor of the American chapel in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Berlin philosophical society. In addition to contributions to religious periodicals, he has published "German Rationalism in its Rise, Progress, and Decline," from the German of Carl Rudolf Hagenbach, in conjunction with William L. Gage (Edinburgh, 1865); "Ninety-five Theses" (Baltimore, 1867); "History of the Augsburg Confession from its Origin till the Adoption of the Formula of Concord " (Philadelphia, 1869); "Christian Sociology" (New York, 1880 ; London, 1881); "Life of Emanuel Kant" (London, 1882)" and "Introduction to the Study of Philosophy."