WINER, GEORG BENEDIKT (1789-1858)

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WINER, GEORG BENEDIKT (1789-1858) , German

Protestant

PROTESTANT

theologian, was born at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

on the 13th of April 1789. He studied theology at

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, where eventually (1832) he became professor ordinarius. From 1824 to 1830 he edited with J. G. V. Engelhardt the Neues kritisches Journal der theologischen Literatur, and alone from 1826 to 1832 the Zeitschrift fur wissenschaftliche Theologie. He is well known as the author of a Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Sprachidioms (1821, 8th ed. revised by P. W. Schmiedel, 1894 ff.), of which several translations have appeared, the latest being by W. F.

Moulton

MOULTON, LOUISE CHANDLER (1835-1908)

(187o, 3rd ed. 1882). He died on the 12th of May 1858.
His other works include: Komparative Darstellung des Lehrbegriffes der verschiedenen christlichen Kirchenparteien (1824; 4th ed. by P. Ewald, 1882; Eng. trans. 1873), Biblisches Realworterbuch (1820; 3rd ed. 1847-1848, 2 vols.), Grammatik des biblischen and targumischen Chaldaismus (1824; 3rd ed. by B. Fischer, Chaldaische Grammatik fur Bibel and

Talmud

TALMUD

, 1882; En g. trans. 1845) and a useful Handbuch der theologischen Literatur (182o; 3rd ed. 1838-184o, 2 vols.; supplement, 1842). Cf. W. Schmidt, " Zum Geddchtnis Dr G. B. Winers," in the Beitrage zur sacizsischen Kirchengeschichte.
WINE-TABLE, a

late

LATE

18th-century device for facilitating after-dinner drinkingthe cabinetmakers called it a " Gentle-man's Social Table." It was always narrow and of semicircular or horseshoe form, and the guests sat round the outer circumference. In the earlier and simpler shapes metal wells for bottles and ice were sunk in the surface of the table; they were fitted with brass lids. In later and more elaborate examples the tables were fitted with a revolving wine-carriage,

bottle

BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a flask; cf. Eng. " butt ")

-holder or tray working upon a balanced arm which enabled the bottles to be passed to any guest without shaking. The side opposite the guests was often fitted with a network bag. It has been conjectured that this bag was intended to hold biscuits, but it is much more likely that its

function

FUNCTION

was to prevent glasses and bottles which might be upset from falling to the floor. That the wine-table might be

drawn

DRAWN

up to the fire in cold weather without inconvenience from the heat it was fitted with curtains hung upon a brass

frame

FRAME

and running upon rings. Sometimes the table was accompanied by a circular

bottle

BOTTLE (Fr. bouteille, from a diminutive of the Lat. butta, a flask; cf. Eng. " butt ")

-stand supported on a tripod into which the bottles were deeply sunk to preserve them from the heat of the fire. Yet another form was circular with a socket in the centre for the bottle. Wine-tables followed the fashion of other tables and were often irtlaid with

wood

or brass. They are now exceedingly scarce.

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