DAUB, KARL (1765-1836)

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DAUB, KARL (1765-1836) , German

Protestant

PROTESTANT

theologian, was born at Cassel on the loth of

March

1765. He studied philosophy, philology and theology at Marburg in 1786, and eventually (1795) became professor ordinarius of theology at

Heidelberg

HEIDELBERG

, where he died on the 22nd of November 1836. Daub was one of the leaders of a school which sought to reconcile theology and philosophy, and to bring about a speculative reconstruction of orthodox dogma. In the course of his intellectual development, he came successively under the influence of Kant, Schelling and

Hegel

HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM
FRIEDRICH
- FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )
(1770-1831)

, and on account of the different phases through which he passed he was called the Talleyrand of German thought. There was one

great

GREAT

defect in his speculative theology: he ignored historical criticism. His purpose was, as Otto Pfleiderer says, " to connect the metaphysical ideas, which
DAUBENY
had been arrived at by means of philosophical dialectic, directly with the persons and events of the Gospel narratives, thus raising these above the region of

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

experience into that of the supernatural, and regarding the most absurd assertions as philosophically justified. Daub had become so hopelessly addicted to this perverse principle that he deduced not only Jesus as the embodiment of the philosophical idea of the

union

of God and man, but also Judas Iscariot as the embodiment of the idea of a rival god, or Satan." The three stages in Daub's development are clearly marked in his writings. His Lehrbuch der Katechetik (18ot) was written under the spell of Kant. His Theologumena (18o6), his Einleitung in das Studium der christl. Dogmatik (181o), and his Judas Ischarioth (2 vols., 1816, 2nd ed., 1818), were all written in the spirit of Schelling, the last of them reflecting a

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

in Schelling himself from

theosophy

THEOSOPHY (from Gr. Oe6s, god, and vogbta, wisdom)

to positive philosophy. Daub's Die dogmatische Theologi jetziger Zeit oder die Selbstsucht in der Wissenschaft des Glaubens (1833), and Vorlesungen ilber die Prolegomena zur Dogmatik (1839), are Hegelian in principle and obscure in language.
See Rosenkranz, Erinnerungen an Karl Daub (1837) ; D. Fr. Strauss, Charakteristiken and Kritiken (2nd ed., 1844) ; and cf. F. Lichtenberger, History of German Theology (1889); Otto Pfleiderer, Development of Theology (189o). (M. A. C.)

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