Immer, He in rich Albert

D.D. (Basel, 1860), Swi Reformed theologian; b. at Unterseen, Aug. 10, 1804; d. at Bern, March 23, 1884. His father was pastor of Unterseen, Canton Bern. There was a clumsine about him which his father mistook for stupidity, and severely punished. The effect of such treatment was to retard his mental development. He learned bookbindery at Lausanne and Zurich, and began busine at Thun but the reading, in 1834, of Schleiermacher's Reden iiber die Religion so powerfully moved him, that he determined to study theology. He entered, after a brilliant examination, the University of Bern in 1835, pa ed his theological examination in 1838, and continued his studies at Bonn and Berlin 1838-40. He then returned home, became a pastor, and, after ten years' service, became profe or extraordinary of theology at Bern 1850, ordinary profe or of New-Testament exegesis and of theology there 1856, and so remained until his retirement as profe or emeritus in 1881. He exerted a great and wide influence. He was the author of Schleiermacher als religibser Character (lecture), Bern, 1859; Der Unsterblichkeitsglaube im Lichte der Geschichte und der gegenwdrtigen Wi enschafl (lecture), 1868; Der Conjiikt zwischen dem Staatskirchenthum und dem methodist is chen Di enterthum im Jahr 1829 in Bern, 1870 (pp. 71); John Bunyan, Basel, 1871; Die Geschichtsquellen des Lebens Jesu (lecture, pp. 29), Leipzig, 1873; Hermeneutik des neuen Testaments, Wittenberg, 1873 (English trans, with additional notes, by Prof. A. H. Newman, Hermeneutics of the New Testament, And over, 1877); Neutestamentliche Theologie, Bern, 1878. Cf. sketch by R. Riietschi in Meili's Theolog is che Zeitschrift aus der Schiveiz, vol. i. (St. Gallen, 1884), pp. 359-362. * j.