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GEZER
(the Kazir of Tethmosis [Thothmes] III.'s See also:list of
r8o3, and at the See also:close of his preliminary studies at the See also:seminary of See also:Blaubeuren entered the university of See also:Tubingen in 182r as a student of evangelical See also:theology
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After passing his final See also:examinations in 1825, he spent a See also:year in See also:Switzerland, during See also:part of the See also:time acting as See also:companion and secretary to C. von See also:Bonstetten (1745–1832); the year 1827 was spent chiefly in See also:Rome
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Re-turning to See also:Wurttemberg in 1828, he first undertook the duties of repetent or theological See also:tutor in Tubingen, and afterwards accepted a curacy in See also:Stuttgart; but having in 183o received an See also:appointment in the royal public library at Stuttgart, he thenceforth gave himself exclusively to literature and See also:historical See also:science
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Ilis first See also:work on See also:Philo (Philo u. See also:die judisch-alexandrinische Theosophie, Stuttgart, 1831) was rapidly followed by an elaborate See also:biography, in two volumes, of Gustavus See also:Adolphus (Gustav Adolf, See also:Konig von Schweden, and See also:seine Zeit, Stuttgart, 1835–1837), and by a See also:critical See also:history of See also:primitive See also:Christianity (Kritische Geschichte See also:des Urchristenthurns, 3 vols., Stuttgart, 1838)
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Here See also:Gfrorer had manifested opinions unfavourable to Protestantism, which, however, were not openly avowed until fully See also:developed in his See also: |
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