Christlieb, The odor

Ph.D. (Tubingen, 1857), D.D. (hon., Berlin, 1870), German Evangelical theologian, b. at Birkenfeld, Wiirtemberg, March 7, 1833; studied at Tubingen, 1851-55; became pastor of the German congregation in Isling ton, London, N., 1858, where he built the first German United Church (comprehending Luther ans and Reformed); town-pastor at Fried rich sha fen, Lake of Con stance, 1865, being called thither by the King of Wiirtemberg, who resides there during the summer; profe or of practical theology and university preacher at Bonn, 1868. He is a Kiright of the Red Eagle. In 1873 he attended the Evangelical Alliance Conference in New York, and read a paper (Monday, Oct. 6, 1873) upon The Best Methods of counteracting Modern Infidelity, subsequently separately i ued in English, New York, 1873; in German, Gutersloh, 1874; in French, Paris, 1874; in Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Italian, and Greek. He has written, tracts, etc., Leben und Lehre des Johannes Scotus Erigena, Gotha, 1860; Moderne Zweifel am christ lichen Glauben, St. Gall, 1868; 2d ed. Bonn, 1870 (English trans., Modern Doubt and Christian Belief, Edinburgh and New York, 1874, 4th ed. 1879); Dr. Karl Bernhard Hundeshagen; eine Leben kizze, Gotha, 1873; (editor) Hundeshagens ausgewdhlte kleinere Schriften und Abhandlungen, 1874-75, 2 vols.; Der Mi ionsberuf des eeangelischen Deutsch lands nach Idee und Geschichte, Gutersloh, 1876 Der in do brit is che Opium han del und seine Wirkungen, 1878 (English trans., The Indo-British Opium Trade and its Effects, London, 1879, 2d ed. 1881; French trans., Paris, 1879); Der gegenwartige Stand der 1879, 4th ed. 1880 (English trans., Protestant Foreign Mi ions, their Present State, London, 1880, 3d ed. 1881; Boston, 1st and 2d ed. 1880, Protestant Mi ions to the Heathen, a General Survey, Calcutta, 1st to 3d ed. 1882; French trans., Lausanne, 1880; Swedish, Stockholm, 1880; Norwegian, Kristiania, 1881); Zur methodist is chen Frage in Deutschland, Bonn, 1st and 2d ed., 1882; Die religiose Gleichgilltigkeit und die besten Miltel zu Hirer Bekampfung, Magdeburg, 1st and 2d ed., 1885. Since 1874 he has been co-editor of the All gem eine Mi ionszeitschrift, Giitersloh. He is president of the West German Branch of the Evangelical Alliance, and attended as delegate the General Conferences of New York (1873), Basel (1879), and Copenhagen (1884).