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GUSTAV FRIEDRICH OEHLER (1812-1872)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 13 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH See also:OEHLER (1812-1872)  , See also:German theologian, was See also:born on the loth of See also:June 1812 at See also:Ebingen, See also:Wurttemberg, and was educated privately and at See also:Tubingen where he was much influenced by J . C . F . Steudel, See also:professor of Old Testament See also:Theology . In 1837, after a See also:term of See also:Oriental study at See also:Berlin, he went to Tubingen as Repetent, becoming in • 1840 professor at the See also:seminary and pastor in Schonthal . In 1845 he published his Prolegomena zur Theologie See also:des See also:Allen Testaments, accepted an invitation to See also:Breslau and received the degree of See also:doctor from See also:Bonn . In 1852 he returned to Tubingen as director of the seminary and professor of Old Testament Theology at the university . He declined a See also:call to See also:Erlangen as successor to See also:Franz See also:Delitzsch (1867), and died at Tubingen on the 19th of See also:February 1872 . See also:Oehler admitted the composite authorship of the See also:Pentateuch and the See also:Book of See also:Isaiah, and did much to See also:counter-See also:act the antipathy against the Old Testament that had been fostered by See also:Schleiermacher . In See also:church polity he was Lutheran rather than Reformed . Besides his Old Testament Theology (Eng. trans., 2 vols., See also:Edinburgh, 1874–1875), his See also:works were Gesammelte Seminarreden (1872) and Lehrbuch Symbolik (1876), both published posthumously, and about See also:forty articles for the first edition of See also:Herzog's Realencyklopddie which were largely retained by Delitzsch and von See also:Orelli in the second .

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