Arndt, JOHANN — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Arndt, JOHANN, a German Lutheran divine, was born at Ballenstedt, Anhalt, in 1555, and died at Celle, Hanover, in 1621. His Wahres Christenthum ('True Christianity') was translated into most European languages, and is yet popular in Germany. Its object is edification—the promotion of practical religion; and it is written with great warmth and unction, and in a strain of piety bordering on mysticism. It has been called the Protestant Imitatio, and its author the Fénélon of the Protestant Church. There are two English translations—by Boehm (1720) and by Jaques (1815).