RIEHM, EDUARD KARL AUGUST (183o-1888)

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RIEHM, EDUARD KARL AUGUST (183o-1888) , German

Protestant

PROTESTANT

theologian, was born at Diersburg in Baden on the loth of December 183o. He studied theology and philology at Heidelberg and later at

Halle

under Hermann Hupfeld, who persuaded him to include Arabic, Syriac and Egyptian. Entering the ministry in 1853, he was made vicar at Durlach soon afterwards, and became a licentiate in the theological faculty at Heidelberg. In 1854 he was appointed garrison-preacher at

Mannheim

MANNHEIM

; and in 1858 he was licensed to lecture at Heidelberg, where in 1861 he was made professor extraordinarius. In 1862 he obtained a similar post at

Halle

, and in 1866 was promoted to the rank of professor ordinarius. Throughout his life he followed Hupfeld's plan in his scientific treatment of the Old Testamentthat of reconciling the results of a free criticism with a belief in divine revelations. His

practical

PRACTICAL

experience of

pastoral

PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

work

WORK

also proved of service to him when he became a professor of theology, for " if there is one quality more striking
h xIII. IIthan another in the writings of Riehm, it is that of sympathy with orthodox believers" (T. K.

Cheyne

). In 1865 Riehm was made a member of the commission for the revision of Luther's translation of the Bible, and became one of the editors of the quarterly

review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

, Theologische Studien and Kritiken. He died on the 5th of April 1888.
His works include: Die Gesetzgebung Mosis im Lande Moab (X854?, in which the Deuteronomic law book is' assigned to the second half of the reign of Manasseh; Der L"ehrbegriff des Hebraerbriefs (1858-59, 2nd ed. 1867); Hermann Hupfeld, Lebens-und Charakterbild eines deutschen Professors (1867) ; Die Messianische Weissagung (1875, 2nd ed. 1883; Eng. trans. 189o) ; Religion and Wissenschaft (1881); and the well-known Llandworterbuch des biblischen Altertums (2 vols., 1884; 2nd. ed. revised by F. Baethgen, 189294). After his death were published the Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1889, ed. by A. Brandt), in which the date of the Deuteronomic law book is placed earlier than in his book on the legislation of Mosesshortly before or at the beginning of the reign of Hezekiah; and his Alttestarnentliche Theologie (1889, ed. by Pahncke). See

Herzog

HERZOG, HANS (1819–1894)
HERZOG, JOHANN JAKOB (1805-1882)

-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, and T. K.

Cheyne

CHEYNE, THOMAS KELLY (1841— )

, Founders of Old Testament Criticism.

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