Friedrich Spitta German

Germany

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 Protestant theologian, was born at Wittingen

Wittingen

Wittingen is a town in the district of Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 30 km northeast of Gifhorn, and 30 km southeast of Uelzen.- Division of the town :Wittingen consists of 27 districts:- Demographic data :...

, Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

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Friedrich studied at Göttingen and Erlangen

Erlangen

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, and in course of time became (1887) professor ordinarius and university preacher at Saint Thomas Church

Saint Thomas Church (Strasbourg)

The Saint-Thomas Church is a historical building in Strasbourg, eastern France. It is the main Protestant church of the city since its Cathedral became Catholic again after the annexation of the town by France in 1681...

 in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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. In 1896 he became joint-editor with Julius Smend

Julius Smend

Julius Smend was a German theologian who was born in Lengerich, Westphalia. He was brother to theologian Rudolf Smend and father to musicologist Friedrich Smend ....

 of the Monatschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst, and he is widely known as the author of a work on the Acts of the Apostles

Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of the Apostles , usually referred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age...

 (Die Apostelgeschichte, ihre Quellen and deren geschichtlicher Wert (1891)).

His other works include:

• Der Knabe Jesus, eine biblische Geschichte and ihre apokryphischen Entstellungen (1883)
• Die Offenbarung des Johannes (1889)
• Zur Reform des evang. Kultus (1891)
• Zur Geschichte and Litteratur des Urchristentums (3 vols, 1893-1901).
• Die synoptische Grundschrift in ihrer Überlieferung durch das Lukasevangelium. (Volume 1 of Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament.) Leipzig, 1912 [The Synoptic Grundschrift (base narrative) as preserved in the Gospel of Luke.]
• Ein Lebensbild Jesu aus den drei ersten Evangelien: Deutsche Ubersetzung der synoptischen Grundschrift in ihrer Uberlieferung durch das Lukasevangelium. J.C. Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1912 [Life of Jesus from the first three Gospels: German translation of the Synoptic Grundschrift (base narrative) as preserved in the Gospel of Luke.]

His father, Karl Johann Philipp Spitta (1 August 1801 – 28 September 1859), was a Protestant but among his ancestors was famous Jewish diarist Gluckel of Hameln

Glückel of Hameln

Glückel of Hameln was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose account of life provides scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish communal life in the late-17th-early eighteenth century Jewish ghetto...

. He was born in Hanover

Hanover

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, and is well known as a distinguished Protestant hymn-writer (see Lyra domestica, 1st series, London, 1860; 2nd series, 1864). He was superintendent at Burgdorf. (Bernt Engelmann,"Germany without Jews". Translated from German by D.J. Beer, New York: Bantam Books, 1984, p. 27.)

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