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HOLTZMANN, HEINRICH JULIUS (1832— )

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HOLTZMANN, HEINRICH See also:JULIUS (1832— ) , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, son of Karl Julius Holtzmann (1804—1877), was See also:born on the 17th of May 1832 at See also:Karlsruhe, where his See also:father ultimately became See also:prelate and counsellor to the supreme See also:consistory. He studied at See also:Berlin, .and eventually (1874) was appointed See also:professor ordinarius at See also:Strassburg. A moderately liberal theologian, he became best known as a New Testament critic and exegete, being the author of the Commentary on the Synoptics (1889; 3rd ed., 1901), the Johannine books (189o; 2nd ed., 1893), and the Acts of the Apostles (1901), in the See also:series Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament. On the question of the relationship 4 the Synoptic Gospels, Holtzmann in his See also:early See also:work, See also:Die synoptischen Evangelien, ihr Ursprung and geschichtlicher Charakter (1863), presents a view which has been widely accepted, maintaining the priority of See also:Mark, deriving See also:Matthew in its See also:present See also:form from Mark and from Matthew's earlier " collection of Sayings," the See also:Logia of See also:Papias, and See also:Luke from Matthew and Mark in the form in which we have them. Other noteworthy See also:works are the Lehrbuch der histor.-krilischen Einleitung in das Neue Testament (1885, 3rd ed., 1892), and the Lehrbuch der neutestamentlichen Theologie (2 vols., 1896–1897). He also collaborated with R. ZOpffel in the preparation of a small Lexikon See also:fur Theologie and Kirchenwesen (1882; 3rd ed., 1895), and in 1893 became editor of the Theol. Jahresbericht.

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