Krauss, Alfred

(Eduard), Lie. Theol. (Basel, 1866), D.D. (hon., Basel, 1868), Reformed; b. at Rheineck, Canton St. Gallen, Switzerland, March 19, 1836; studied at Heidelberg (1855-56), Halle (1856-57), and Zurich (1857-58); pa ed the state theological examination at St. Gallen, 1859; became pastor of Stettfurt, Canton Thurgau, Switzerland, 1859; profe or extraordinary at Marburg, 1870; ordinary profe or, 1871; at Stra burg, 1873. He belongs to the school of Schleiermacher. He lectures upon comparative symbolics, dogmatics, ethics, homiletics, catechetics, pastoral theology, liturgies, practical exegesis, and conducts a homiletical and catechetical seminar. He is the author of Bedeutung des Glaubens fiir die Schriftauslegung, Frauenfeld, 1862; Theolog is cher Commentar zu I. Korinther xv., 1864; Die Lehre von der Off enb a rung, ein Beitrag zur Philosophic des Christ ent hums, Gotha, 1868; Predigten fiir alle Sonnund Festtage des Jahres, Stra burg, 1874; Das protestant is che Dogma von der unsichlbaren Kirche, Gotha, 1876; Lehrbuch der Homiletik, 1883; various articles upon doctrinal and practical theology in different Swi and German periodicals.