Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld

Adolf Hilgenfeld

Adolf Hilgenfeld (1896)
Born 2 June 1823
Stappenbeck, Germany
Died 12 January 1907 (1907-01-13) (aged 83)
Jena, Germany
Nationality German
Fields Theology
New Testament
Institutions University of Jena
Alma mater Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin
University of Halle
Grave in Jena

Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld (2 June 1823  12 January 1907) was a German Protestant theologian.

Biography

He was born at Stappenbeck near Salzwedel in the Province of Saxony.

He studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and the University of Halle, and in 1890 became professor ordinarius of theology at the University of Jena. He belonged to the Tübingen school. Fond of emphasizing his independence of Ferdinand Christian Baur, he still, in all important points, followed in the footsteps of his master; his method, which he is wont to contrast as Literarkritik with Baur's Tendenzkritik, "is nevertheless essentially the same as Baur's."[1][2]

On the whole, however, he modified the positions of the founder of the Tübingen school, going beyond him only in his investigations into the Fourth Gospel. In 1858 he became editor of the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie. Hilgenfeld died in Jena in 1907, aged 83.[2]

Selected works

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References

  1. Otto Pfleiderer, The Development of Theology in Germany Since Kant: And Its Progress in Great Britain Since 1825, tr. J. Frederick Smith (London; New York: S. Sonnenschein & Co.; Macmillan & Co., 1890), 239.
  2. 1 2 3  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hilgenfeld, Adolf Bernhard Christoph". Encyclopædia Britannica. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 463.

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