Seyerlen, Karl Rudolf

Ph.D. (Tubingen, 1854), D.D. (lion., Jena, 1875), Protestant theologian; b. at Stuttgart, Nov. 18, 1831; studied at Tubingen, 1849-53; was curate at Giengen, 1854- 55; student of scholastic theology and philosophy at Paris, 1855-56; teacher of religion in Ulm Gymnasium, 1857-59; repetent at Tubingen, 1859- 61; diakonus at Crailsheim 1862-69, at Tubingen 1869-72; archdeacon there, 1872-75; became ordinary profe or of practical and systematic theology at Jena, 1875. In theology he belongs to the school of Baur, in philosophy to that of Fried rich Rohmer. He is the author of Avicebron, de materia universal! (Fons Vitce), Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Philosophic des Mit tel alters (in Baur and Zeller's Theolog is che Jahrbiicher, 1856-57); Entstehung und erste Schicksale der Chrislengemeinde in Rom, Tubingen, 1874; Ueber Bedeulung und Aufgabe der Predigt der Gegenwart (Ant ritts rede at Jena), 1876; Der christliche Cultus im apos to lis chen Zeitalter (in Ba ermann's Zeilschrift fixr praktische Theologie, 1881); Das System der prakti 210 schen Theologie in seinen Grundzugen (do. 1883); editor of Johann Caspar Bluntscldi (autobiography), Nordlingen, 1884, 3 vols.; Fried rich Rohmer's Wis sens chaft vom Menschen, 1885, 2 vols.; author of numerous articles upon church polity and church law in the Prole slant is che Kirchenzeitung, Berlin, 1880-83.