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JAN HENDRIK SCHOLTEN (181r-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 357 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAN HENDRIK See also:SCHOLTEN (181r-1885)  , Dutch See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at Vleuter near See also:Utrecht on the 17th of See also:August 1811 . After studying at Utrecht University, he was appointed See also:professor of See also:theology at See also:Franeker . From Franeker in 1843 he went to See also:Leiden as professor extraordinarius, and in 1845 was promoted to the See also:rank of ordinarius . Through See also:Scholten, A . See also:Kuenen became interested in theology; Scholten was not then the See also:radical theologian he became later . The two scholars in course of See also:time created a See also:movement resembling that of the 1 To be distinguished from scolium (swamp), an after-See also:dinner See also:song . Spread of Nominal-ism . See also:Tubingen Schoof in See also:Germany . Pursuing first the study of dogmatic theology and the See also:philosophy of See also:religion, Scholten published a See also:work on the Principles of the Theology of the Reformed See also:Church (2 vols., 1848—1850, 4th ed . 1861—1862) . He then gave See also:special See also:attention to the New Testament, and wrote A See also:Critical Study of the See also:Gospel of See also:John (1864, in See also:German 1867) . He died on the loth of See also:April 1885 .

Scholten's other See also:

works include: See also:Historical and Critical Introduction to the New Testament (1853–1856) ; The See also:Oldest Witnesses to the Writings of the New Testament (1866) ; The Oldest Gospel (1868) ; and The Pauline Gospel (187o) . An See also:account of his theological development is given in Afschaidsrede bij het Neerleggen See also:van het Hoogleeraarsambt (1881), and in the See also:biography written by A . Kuenen, Levensbericht van J . Henricus Scholten (1885) .

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