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FRIEDRICH SPITTA (1852— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRIEDRICH SPITTA (1852— )  , German
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Protestant theologian, was born at Wittingen on the loth of
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January 1852 . His
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father, Karl Johann Philipp (1801—1859), well known as a hymn-writer (see Lyra domestica, 1st series,
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London, 186o; 2nd series, 1864), was superintendent at Burgdorf near Hanover . Friedrich studied at
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Gottingen and
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Erlangen, and in course of time became (1887) professor ordinarius and university preacher at Strassburg . In 1896 he became joint-editor with J . Smend of the Monatschrift fur Gottesdienst and kirchliche Kunst, and he is widely known as the author of a
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work on the Acts of the Apostles (Die Apostelgeschichte, ihre Quellen and deren geschichtlicher Wert (1891) . His other
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works include: Der Knabe Jesus, eine biblische Geschichte and ihre apokryphischen Entstellungen (1883), Die Offenbarung
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des Johannes (1889), Zur Reform des evang . Kultus (1891), and Zur Geschichte and Litteratur des Urchristentums (3 vols., 1893-1901) .

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