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KEIM, KARL THEODOR (1825—1878)

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KEIM, KARL THEODOR (1825—1878) , See also:German See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Stuttgart on the 17th of See also:December 1825. His See also:father, Johann See also:Christian Keim, was headmaster of a gymnasium. Here Karl Theodor received his See also:early See also:education, and then proceeded to the Stuttgart Obergymnasium. In 1843 he went to the university of See also:Tubingen, where he studied See also:philosophy under J. F. Reiff, a follower of See also:Hegel, and See also:Oriental See also:languages under Heinrich See also:Ewald and Heinrich Meier. F. C. See also:Baur, the See also:leader of the new Tubingen school, was lecturing on the New Testament and on the See also:history of the See also:church and of See also:dogma, and by him in particular Keim was greatly impressed. The See also:special See also:bent of Keim's mind is seen in his See also:prize See also:essay, Verhaltniss der Christen in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten bis Konstantin zum romischen Reiche (1847). His first published See also:work was See also:Die See also:Reformation der See also:Reichstadt See also:Ulm (1851). In 185o he visited the university of See also:Bonn, where he attended some of the lectures of See also:Friedrich See also:Bleek, See also:Richard See also:Rothe, C.

M. See also:

Arndt and Isaak See also:Dorner. He taught at Tubingen from See also:June 1851 until 1856, when, having become a pastor, he was made See also:deacon at See also:Esslingen, See also:Wurttemberg. In_ 1859 he was appointed See also:archdeacon; but a few months later he was called to the university of See also:Zurich as See also:professor of See also:theology (18J9—1873), where he produced his important See also:works. Before this he had written on church history (e.g. Schwdbische Reformationsgeschichte bis zum Augsburger Reichstag, 1855). His inaugural address at Zurich on the human development of Jesus, Die menschliche Entwicklung Jesu Christi (1861), and his Die 'geschichtliche Wiirde Jesu (1864) were preparatory to his See also:chief work, Die Geschichte Jesu von Nazara in direr Verkettung mit dem Gesamtleben seines Volkes (3 vols., 1867—1872; Eng. trans., Jesus of See also:Nazareth, and the See also:National See also:Life of See also:Israel, 6 vols.), 1873—1882. In 1873 Keim was appointed professor of theology at See also:Giessen. This See also:post he resigned, through See also:ill-See also:health, shortly before his See also:death on the 17th of See also:November 1878. He belonged to the " See also:mediation " school of theology. Chief works, besides the above: Ref ornzationsbldtter der 'Reichsstadt Esslingen (1860) ; Ambrosius Blarer, der Schwdbische Reformator (1860); Der Ubertritt Konstantins d. Gr. zum Christenthum (1862); his sermons, Freundesworte zur Gemeinde (2 vols., 1861–1862) ; and See also:Celsus' wahres Wort (1873).

In 1881 H. Ziegler published one of Keim's earliest works, Rom and das Christenthum, with a See also:

biographical See also:sketch. See also Ziegler's See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie.

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