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REUSS, EDOUARD See also:GUILLAUME See also:EUGENE (1804–18gr) , See also:Protestant theologian, was See also:born at See also:Strassburg on the 18th of See also:July 1804. He studied See also:philology in his native See also:town (1819–22), See also:theology at See also:Gottingen under J. G. See also:Eichhorn; and See also:Oriental See also:languages at See also:Halle under Wilhelm Gesenius, and afterwards at See also:Paris under See also:Silvestre de Sacy (1827–28). In 1828 he became Privatdozent at Strassburg. From 1829 to 1834 he taught Biblical See also:criticism and Oriental languages at the Strassburg Theological School; he then became assistant, and afterwards, in 1836, See also:regular See also:professor of theology at that university. The sympathies of Reuss were See also:German rather than Frehch, and after the See also:annexation of See also:Alsace to See also:Germany he remained at Strassburg, and retained his professorship till, in 1888, he retiredon a See also:pension. Amongst his earliest See also:works were: De libris veteris Testamenti apocryphis plebi non negandis (1829), Ideen zur Einleitung in das Evangelium Johannis (1840) and See also:Die Johanneische Theologie (1847). In 1852 he published his Histoire de la theologie chretienne an siecle apostolique, which was followed in 1863 by L'Histoire du See also:canon See also:des See also:saintes ecritures clans l'eglise chretienne. In 1874 he began to publish his See also:translation of the See also:Bible, La Bible, nouvelle traduction avec commentaire. It was the criticism and exegesis of the New Testament which formed the subject of Reuss's earlier labours—in 1842, indeed, he had published in German a See also:history of the books of the New Testament, Geschichte der heiligen Schriften N. Test.; and though his own views were liberal, he opposed the results of the See also:Tubingen school.

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time he turned his See also:attention also to Old Testament criticism, for which he was especially fitted by his See also:sound knowledge of See also:Hebrew. In 1881 he published in German his Geschichte der heiligen Schriften A. Test., a veritable See also:encyclopaedia of the history of See also:Israel from its earliest beginning till the taking of See also:Jerusalem by See also:Titus: He died at Strassburg on the 15th of See also:April 1891. Reuss belonged to the more See also:modern See also:section of the Liberal party in the Lutheran See also:Church. His See also:critical position was to some extent that of K. H. See also:Graf and J. Welihausen, allowing for the circumstances that he was in a sense their forerunner, and was actually for a time Graf's teacher. Indeed, he was really the originator of the new See also:movement, but hesitated to publish the results of his studies. For many years Reuss edited with A. H. See also:Cunitz (b.

1812) the Beitrage zit den theologischen Wissenschaften. With A. H. Cunitz and J. W. Baum (1809–1878), and after their See also:

death alone, he edited the monumental edition of See also:Calvin's works (38 vols., 1863 ff.). His critical edition of the Old Testament appeared a See also:year after his death. His son, See also:ERNST See also:RUDOLF (b. 1841), was in 1873 appointed See also:city librarian at Strassburg. See the See also:article in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, and cf. See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer, Development of Theology in Germany since See also:Kant (1890).

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