HANS HINRICH

WENDT (1853— )  , German Protestant theologian, was born in Hamburg on the 18th of June 1853 . After studying theology at Leipzig, Gottingen and Tubingen, he became in 1885 professor ordinarius of systematic theology at Heidelberg, and in 1893 was called to Jena . His work on the teaching of Jesus (Die Lehre Jesu, 1886—189o; Eng. trans. of second part, 1892) made him widely known . He also edited several editions (5th to 8th, 188o—1898) of the Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in H . A . W . Meyer's series . In May 1904 he delivered two addresses in London on " The Idea and Reality of Revelation, and Typical Forms of Christianity," as the Essex Hall Lectures (published, 1904) . His works include: Die christliche Lehre von der menschlichen Vollkommenheit (1882), Der Erfahrungsbeweis fur die Wahrheit des Christentums (1897), and Das Johannesevangelium (1900; Eng. trans., 1902) .