BERNHARD

STADE (1848–1906)  , German Protestant theologian, was born on the 11th of May 1848, at Arnstadt, in Thuringia . He studied at Leipzig and Berlin, and in course of time became (1875) professor ordinarius at Giessen . Once a member of Franz Delitzsch's class, he became a convinced adherent of the newest critical school . In 1881 he founded the Zeitschrift filr alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, which he continued to edit; and his critical history of Israel (Geschichte des Volks Israel, 2 vols., 1887–1888; vol. ii. in conjunction with Oscar Holtzmann) has made him very widely known . With C . Siegfried he has revised and edited the Hebrew lexicon, Hebr . Worterbuch zum Allen Testament (1892-1893) . Stade's other works include Uber die alttestamentlichen Vorstellungen vom Zustand neck dem Tode (1877), Lehrbuch der hebr . Grammatik (vol. i., 1879), Ausgewahlte akademische Reden and Abhandlungen (1899), and Biblische Theologie des Allen Testaments (1905, &c.) . He died on the 6th of December 1906 . See O . Pfleiderer, Development of Theology (1890) .