Demme. I. Hermann Christoph Gottfried, a German theologian and poet, born at Mtihlhausen, Sept. 7, 1760, died in Altenburg, Dec. 26,1822. He became chief director of the ecclesiastical and educational department of the duchy of Altenburg, and wrote under the name of "Karl Stelle" several popular novels and tales, and many religious songs. II. Charles Rudolph, an American clergyman, son of the preceding, born at Mtihlhausen, April 10,1795, died in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 1863. He was destined for the law, and studied at Altenburg, Gottingen, and Halle, but entered the army, and was severely wounded at Waterloo. He afterward studied theology, came to America in 1818, and in the following year became pastor of a Lutheran church at Hummelstown, Pa., but in 1822 removed to Philadelphia, where for 37 years he was associate pastor of St. Michael's and Zion's churches. He was eminent as a pulpit orator and scholar, and edited a German translation of Josephus, to which he added a large number of notes. III. Wilhelm Ludwig, brother of the preceding, a German jurist, born in Altenburg, March 20, 1801. He has practised law at Altenburg, Jena, and Wtirzburg, and written Das Buck der Verbrechen (4 vols., Leipsic, 1851; new ed., 1852-3). IV. Hermann, brother of the preceding, born in 1803, was professor of medicine at the university of Bern, where he died Jan. 18,1867. V. Karl Hermann, son of the preceding, born about 1831, died at Nervi, near Genoa, in November, 1864. He was a physician at Bern, and wrote several medical works, the principal of them being Militdr-chirurgische Studien (2 vols., Wurzburg, 1861). In October, 1864, he was tried for poisoning one of his patients named Trum-py, to whose widow he became affianced.

He was acquitted, but fled from Bern in company with the woman, and both of them committed suicide at an inn.