EDUARD KARL

AUGUST

See also:

• EDUARD KARL AUGUST RIEHM (183o-1888)

RIEHM (183o-1888)  , German Protestant theologian, was born at Diersburg in Baden on the loth of December 183o . He studied theology and philology at Heidelberg and later at Halle under Hermann Hupfeld, who persuaded him to include Arabic, Syriac and Egyptian . Entering the ministry in 1853, he was made vicar at Durlach soon afterwards, and became a licentiate in the theological faculty at Heidelberg . In 1854 he was appointed garrison-preacher at Mannheim; and in 1858 he was licensed to lecture at Heidelberg, where in 1861 he was made professor extraordinarius . In 1862 he obtained a similar post at Halle, and in 1866 was promoted to the rank of professor ordinarius . Throughout his life he followed Hupfeld's plan in his scientific treatment of the Old Testament—that of reconciling the results of a free criticism with a belief in divine revelations . His practical experience of pastoral work also proved of service to him when he became a professor of theology, for " if there is one quality more striking h xIII . IIthan another in the writings of Riehm, it is that of sympathy with orthodox believers" (T . K . Cheyne) . In 1865 Riehm was made a member of the commission for the revision of Luther's translation of the Bible, and became one of the editors of the quarterly review, Theologische Studien and Kritiken . He died on the 5th of April 1888 .

His

works include: Die Gesetzgebung Mosis im Lande Moab (X854?, in which the Deuteronomic law book is' assigned to the second half of the reign of Manasseh; Der L"ehrbegriff des Hebraerbriefs (1858-59, 2nd ed . 1867); Hermann Hupfeld, Lebens-und Charakterbild eines deutschen Professors (1867) ; Die Messianische Weissagung (1875, 2nd ed . 1883; Eng. trans . 189o) ; Religion and Wissenschaft (1881); and the well-known Llandworterbuch des biblischen Altertums (2 vols., 1884; 2nd. ed. revised by F . Baethgen, 1892–94) . After his death were published the Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1889, ed. by A . Brandt), in which the date of the Deuteronomic law book is placed earlier than in his book on the legislation of Moses—shortly before or at the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah; and his Alttestarnentliche Theologie (1889, ed. by Pahncke) . See Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, and T . K . Cheyne, Founders of Old Testament Criticism .