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BEYSCHLAG, WILLIBALD (1823-1900)

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BEYSCHLAG, WILLIBALD (1823-1900) , See also:German See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main on the 5th of See also:September 1823. He studied See also:theology at See also:Bonn and See also:Berlin (184o-1844), and in 1856 was appointed See also:court-preacher at See also:Karlsruhe. In 186o, he moved to See also:Halle as See also:professor ordinarius of See also:practical theology. A theologian of the mediating school, he became See also:leader of the Mittelpartei, and with Albrecht Wolters founded as its See also:organ the Deutschevangelische Bid/ter. As a representative of this party, he took a prominent See also:part in the See also:general synods of 1875 and 1879. His championship of the rights of the laity and his belief in the See also:autonomy of the See also:church led him to See also:advocate the separation of church and See also:state. He died at Halle on the 25th of See also:November 1900. Among his numerous See also:works are See also:Die Christologie See also:des Neuen Testaments (1866), Der Altkatholicismus (three See also:editions, 1882—1883), Leben Jesu (2 vols., 1885; 3rd ed., 1893), Neutestamentliche Theologie (2 vols., 1891—1892; 2nd ed., 1896), Christenlehre auf Grund des kleinen luth. Katechismus (1900), and an autobiography Aus meinem Leben (2 parts, 1896-1898). See P. See also:Schaff, Living Divines (1887) ; Lichtenberger, Hist. Germ.

Theol. (1889); Calwer-See also:

Zeller, Kirchenlexikon.

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