Strauss, David Friedrich
STRAUSS, DAVID FRIEDRICH (1808–1874), German biblical critic, man of letters, and freethinker. Strauss is best known for his monumental book The Life of Jesus (1835). I...
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Strauss, David Friedrich(1808–1874)
David Friedrich Strauss, the German theologian, historian of religion, and moralist, was born at Ludwigsburg in Württemberg. He studied from 1821 to 1...
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In 1835 the first volume of David Friedrich Strauß's Das Leben Jesu, kritisch bearbeitet (1835-1836; translated as The Life of Christ; or, A Critical Examination of His History, 1843) was publis...
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David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874), the German historian and the most controversial Protestant theologian of his time, was one of the first to make a clear distinction between Jesus the historical fi...
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