Pfleiderer, Otto

D.D. (honor is causa, Jena, 1870), German Protestant; b. at Stetten, near Cannstatt, Wiirtemberg, Sept. 1, 1839; studied under Baur at Tubingen, 1857-61; became pastor at Heilbronn, 1868; superintendent at Jena 1870, and the same year ordinary profe or of theology, and Kirchenrath; went to Berlin as profe or of theology, 1875. He belongs to the historical, crit is the author of Die Religion, ihr Wesen und ihre Geschichte, Leipzig, 1869, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1878; Moral und Religion, gekrbnte Prei chrift, Haarlem, 1870; Der Paul in is mus, Leipzig, 1873; F. G.Fichte. Lebensbild eines deutschen Denkers und Patriolen, Stuttgart, 1877; Relirjionsphilosophie auf qeschichtlicher Grundlage, Berlin, 1878, 2d ed. 1883-84, 2 vols.; Zur religiosen Verstdndigung, 1879; Grundri der christ lichen Glaubensund Sittenlehre, 1880, 3d ed. 1886; Lectures on the Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity (Hibbert Lectures for 1885), London, 1885.