Johann Lorenz von Mosheim

Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (1693-1755) was a German Lutheran church historian at Göttingen, best known for his two-volume An Ecclesiastical History, From The Birth of Christ to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century: in which The Rise, Progress And Variation of Church Power Are Considered In Their Connection With the State Of Learning And Philosophy, and The Political History of Europe During that Period, 2 vols (London, 1765).