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LECHLER, GOTTHARD VICTOR (1811–1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LECHLER, GOTTHARD See also:VICTOR (1811–1888) , See also:German Lutheran theologian, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:April 1811 at Kloster See also:Reichenbach in See also:Wurttemberg. He studied at See also:Tubingen under F. C. See also:Baur, and became in 1858 pastor of the See also:church of St See also:Thomas, See also:professor ordinarius of See also:historical See also:theology and See also:superintendent of the Lutheran church of See also:Leipzig. He died on the 26th of See also:December 1888. A See also:disciple of See also:Neander, he belonged to the extreme right of the school of mediating theologians. He is important as the historian of See also:early See also:Christianity and of the pre-See also:Reformation See also:period. Although F. C. Baur was his teacher, he did not attach himself to the Tubingen school; in reply to the contention that there are traces of a See also:sharp conflict between two parties, Paulinists and Petrinists, he says that " we find variety coupled with agreement, and unity with difference, between See also:Paul and the earlier apostles; we recognize the one spirit in the many gifts." His Das apostolische and das nachapostolische Zeitalter (1851), which See also:developed out of a See also:prize See also:essay (1849), passed through three See also:editions in See also:Germany (3rd ed., 1885), and was translated into See also:English (2 vols., 1886). The See also:work which in his own See also:opinion was his greatest, Johann von W"iclif and See also:die Vorgeschichte der Reformation (2 vols., 1873), appeared in English with the See also:title See also:John Wiclif and his English Precursors (1878, new ed., 1884). An earlier work, Geschichte See also:des engl.

Deismus (1841), is still regarded as a valuable contribution to the study of religious thought in See also:

England. Lechler's other See also:works include Geschichte der Presbyterial- and Synodal-verfassung (1854), Urkundenfunde zur Geschichte des christl. Altertums (1886), and See also:biographies of Thomas See also:Bradwardine (1862) and See also:Robert See also:Grosseteste (1867). He wrote See also:part of the commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in J. P. See also:Lange's Bibelwerk. From 1882 he edited with F. W. Dibelius the Beitrage zur sachsischen Kirchengeschichte. Johannes Hus (189o) was published after his See also:death.

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