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WILLIBALD BEYSCHLAG (1823-1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 839 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEYSCHLAG (1823-1900)  , See also:German See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main on the 5th of See also:September 1823 . He studied See also:theology at See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin (184o-1844), and in 1856 was appointed See also:court-preacher at See also:Karlsruhe . In 186o, he moved to See also:Halle as See also:professor ordinarius of See also:practical theology . A theologian of the mediating school, he became See also:leader of the Mittelpartei, and with Albrecht Wolters founded as its See also:organ the Deutschevangelische Bid/ter . As a representative of this party, he took a prominent See also:part in the See also:general synods of 1875 and 1879 . His championship of the rights of the laity and his belief in the See also:autonomy of the See also:church led him to See also:advocate the separation of church and See also:state . He died at Halle on the 25th of See also:November 1900 . Among his numerous See also:works are See also:Die Christologie See also:des Neuen Testaments (1866), Der Altkatholicismus (three See also:editions, 1882—1883), Leben Jesu (2 vols., 1885; 3rd ed., 1893), Neutestamentliche Theologie (2 vols., 1891—1892; 2nd ed., 1896), Christenlehre auf Grund des kleinen luth . Katechismus (1900), and an autobiography Aus meinem Leben (2 parts, 1896-1898) . See P . See also:Schaff, Living Divines (1887) ; Lichtenberger, Hist . Germ .

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Zeller, Kirchenlexikon .

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