Adolf Hilgenfeld

From Textus Receptus

Adolf Bernhard Christoph Hilgenfeld (2 June 1823 - 12 January 1907) was a German Protestant theologian.

Biography

He was born at Stappenbeck near Salzwedel in the Province of Saxony.

He studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and the University of Halle, and in 1890 became professor ordinarius of theology at the University of Jena. He belonged to the Tübingen school. Fond of emphasizing his independence of Ferdinand Christian Baur, he still, in all important points, followed in the footsteps of his master; his method, which he is wont to contrast as Literarkritik with Baur's Tendenzkritik, "is nevertheless essentially the same as Baur's.",^[1][2]

On the whole, however, he modified the positions of the founder of the Tübingen school, going beyond him only in his investigations into the Fourth Gospel. In 1858 he became editor of the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie. Hilgenfeld died in Jena in 1907, aged 83.^[2]

Selected works

• Hilgenfeld, Adolf B. C. (1848). Die elementarischen Recognitionen and Homilien.
• ——— (1849). Die Evangelien and die Briefe des Johannes nach ihrem Lehrbegriff.
• ——— (1850). Das Markusevangelium.
• ——— (1854). Die Evangelien nach ihrer Entstehung and geschichtlichen Bedeutung.
• ——— (1855). Das Urchristentum und seine neuesten Bearbeitungen.
• ——— (1857). Die jüdische Apokalyptik in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung.
• ——— (1866). Novum Testamentum extra canonem receptum (4 parts ed.).
• ——— (1875). Historische-kritische Einleitung in das Neue Testament.
• ——— (1884). Die ketzergeschichte des urchristentums, urkundlich dargestellt.
• ——— (1899). Acta Apostolorum graece et latine secundum antiquissimos testes.
• ——— (1887). The first complete edition of the Shepherd of Hermas.
• ——— (1902). Ignatii et Polycarpi epistolae.^[2]

References

• 1. Otto Pfleiderer, The Development of Theology in Germany Since Kant: And Its Progress in Great Britain Since 1825, tr. J. Frederick Smith (London; New York: S. Sonnenschein & Co.; Macmillan & Co., 1890), 239.
• 2. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hilgenfeld, Adolf Bernhard Christoph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 463.