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

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