Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld

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Adolf Hilgenfeld
Tübingen School
InstitutionsUniversity of Jena
Grave in Jena

Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld (2 June 1823 – 12 January 1907) was a

Protestant
theologian.

Biography

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

He studied at 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

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. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hilgenfeld, Adolf Bernhard Christoph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 463.