Trechsel, Fried rich

D.D., Swi theologian b. at Bern, Nov. 30, 1805; d. there Jan. 30, 1885. He studied in the university of his native city, then in Paris, Gbttingen, Halle, and Berlin. Of his teachers, Liicke of Gbttingen and Neander of Berlin had the most influence upon his intellectual development. In 1829 he became chaplain of the city hospital at Bern, and privat-docent in the academy; pastor at Vechigen, 1837; of the Minster at Bern, 1859; retired on a pension, 1876. He was the author of Ueber den Kanon, die Kritik und Exegese, Bern, 1832; Johannes Philoponus (in Theolog is che Studien und Kritiken, 1835); Die protest an lis chen Antitrinitarier vor Faustus Socin., Nach Quellen und Urkunden geschichtlich dargestellt (his chief work), Heidelberg, 1839-44, 2 vols, (vol. i., Michael Servet und seine Vorganger; vol. ii., Lelio Sozini und die Antitrinitarier seiner Zeit); Beitrdge zur Geschichte der schiveizerisch-reformirten Kirche, zundchst derjenigen des Kanlons Bern, Bern, 1844; valuable articles in Herzog's Real-Encyklopadie, in the Berner Taschenbuch, etc. Cf. obituary notice by R. Ruetschi in Meile's Theolog is che Zeitschrift aus der Schweiz, vol. ii. (Zurich, 1885), pp. 312-314.