Otto Von Gerlach, a German theologian, born in Berlin in 1801, died there, Oct. 24, 1849. He held various ecclesiastical offices, and not long before his death became professor at Berlin. He published several works, prominent among which are a commentary on the Scriptures, known as the Gerlachsche Bibel, which was continued after his death by Schmie-der. He also edited Avswahl von Luthers Schriften (24 vols., Berlin, 1840-48).-His elder brother, Ernst Ltjdwig, born in Berlin, March 7, 1795, is prominent as an ultra-conservative journalist and politician, and as the parliamentary leader of the high-church party in Prussia.