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PAULUS, HEINRICH See also:EBERHARD" GOTTLOB (1761-1851), See also:German rationalistic theologian, was See also:born at Leonberg, near See also:Stuttgart, on the 1st of See also:September 1761. His See also:father, a Lutheran clergyman at Leonberg, dabbled in See also:spiritualism, and was deprived of his living in r771. Paulus was educated in the See also:seminary at See also:Tubingen, was three years See also:master in a German school, and then spent two years in travelling through See also:England, See also:Germany, See also:Holland and See also:France. In 1789 he was chosen See also:professor ordinarius of See also:Oriental See also:languages at See also:Jena. Here he lived in See also:close intercourse with See also:Schiller, See also:Goethe, See also:Herder and the most distinguished See also:literary men of the See also:time. In 1793 he succeeded Johann Christoph See also:Doderlein (1745–1792) as professor of exegetical See also:theology. His See also:special See also:work was the exposition of the Old and New Testaments in the See also:light of his See also:great Oriental learning Ii and according to his characteristic principle of " natural explanation." In his explanation of the See also:Gospel narratives Paulus sought to remove what other interpreters regarded as miracles from the See also:Bible by distinguishing between the fact related and the author's See also:opinion of it, by seeking a naturalistic exegesis of a narrative, e.g. that See also:Earl ri7s flaXavvrts (Matt. xiv. 25) means by the See also:shore and not on the See also:sea, by supplying circumstances omitted by the author, by remembering that the author produces as miracles occurrences which can now be explained otherwise, e.g. exorcisms. His See also:Life of Jesus (1828) is a synoptical See also:translation of the Gospels, prefaced by an See also:account of the preparation for the See also:Christ and a brief See also:summary of His See also:history, and accompanied by very See also:short explanations interwoven in the translation. The See also:form of the work was fatal to its success, and the subsequent Exegetisches Handbuch rendered it quite superfluous. In this Handbuch Paulus really contributed much to a true See also:interpretation of the Gospel narratives. In 1803 he became professor of theology and Consistorialrat at Wiirzburg.

After this he filled various posts in See also:

south Germany—school director at See also:Bamberg (1807), See also:Nuremberg .(18o8), See also:Ansbach (181o)—until he became professor of exegesis and See also:church history at See also:Heidelberg (1811–1844). He died on the loth of See also:August 1851. His See also:chief exegetical See also:works are his Philologisch-kritischer and historischer Kommentar fiber das Neue Testament (4 vols., i800–1804); Philologischer Clavis caber See also:die Psalmen (1791) ; and Philologischer Clavis fiber Jesaias (1793) ; and particularly his Exegetisches Handbuch fiber die drei ersten Evangelien (3 vols., 1830–1833 and ed., 1841–1842). He also edited a collected small edition of See also:Baruch See also:Spinoza's works (1802–1803), a collection of the most noted Eastern travels (1792–1803), F. W. J. See also:Schelling's Vorlesungen fiber d'e Offenbarus;.g (1843), and published Skizzen aus meiner Bildungsund Lebensgeschichte (1839). See Karl Reichlin-Meldegg, H. E. G. Paulus and See also:seine Zeit (1853), and See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopkdie; cf. F.

Lichtenberger, History of German Theology in the Nineteenth See also:

Century, pp. 21–24.

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