CHRISTOPH

ERNST

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• CHRISTOPH ERNST LUTHARDT (1823-1902)

LUTHARDT (1823-1902)  , German Lutheran theologian, was born at Maroldsweisach, Bavaria, on the 22nd of March 1823 . He studied theology at Erlangen and Berlin, and in 1856 became professor ordinarius of systematic theology and New Testament exegesis at Leipzig . In 1865 he was 'made a counsellor to the consistory, in 1871 canon of Meissen cathedral, and in 1887 a privy councillor to the church . He died at Leipzig on the 21st of September 1902 . A strictly orthodox theologian, and a clear writer, though not a very profound scholar, Luthardt became widely appreciated as the author of apologetic lectures . These were collected under the title Apologie des Christenlums (vol. i., 1864, 14th ed . 1896; vol. ii . 7th ed., 19o1; vol. iii . 7th ed., 1898; vol. iv . 2nd ed., 188o), a work of which the first three volumes have been translated into English . In 1868 he founded and edited the Allgemeine evang.-lutherische Kirchenzeilung, with its supplement the Theologisches Litteraturblatt, and in 188o became editor of the Zeitschrift fur kirchl . Wissenschaft and kirchl .

Leben . His other

works include Das Johanneische Evangelium . . . erkldrt (1852-18J3; 2nd ed. in 2 vols., 1875-1876), Offenbarung Johannis erkldrt (1861), Lehre von den letzten Dingen (1861; 3rd ed . 1885); Kompendium der Dogmatik (1865; 9th ed., 1893), Geschichte der christlichen Ethik (2 vols., 1888-1893), Gnade and Wahrheit (1874), Das Wort des Lebens (1877) and Gnade and Frieden (188o) . His autobiography was published with the title Erinnerungen aus vergangenen Tagen (1889; 2nd ed., 1891) .