Luedemann, Hermann

Ph.D., Lie. Theol. (both Kiel, 1870 and 1871), D.D. (Heidelberg, 1883), German Protestant theologian; b. (son of the succeeding) at Kiel, Pru ia, Sept. 15, 1842; studied at Kiel, Heidelberg, and Berlin, 1861-67; became privat-docent at Kiel, and teacher in a private school, 1872; profe or extraordinary of the New Testament at Kiel, 1878; ordinary profe or of church history at Bern, Switzerland, 1884. He is a critical and liberal theologian, in sympathy with the Jena school. He is tire author of Die Anthropologic des Apostel Patdus und ihre Stellung innerhalb seiner Heilslehre, Nach den vier Hauptbriefen darqestellt, Kiel, 1872; Zur Erklarung des Papias/'ragments Euseb. H. E. Hi. 39 (in Jahrb. f prot. Theol., 1879); Die " Eidbrllchigkeit " unserer neukirchlichen (freisinnigen) Geist lichen, Kiel, 1881,3d ed. 1884; Die neuere Ent wick lung der protestant is chen Theologie, Bremen, 1884; from 1873 to 1883 he contributed to the Literarisches Centralblait, Jenaer Literaturzeitung, Protestant is che Kirchenzeitung, and political journals; since 1881 he has contributed the section on church history down to the Council of Nica?a. in Piinjer's Theolog is cher Jahresbericht.