Ludwig Diestel

Ludwig Diestel (* September 28, 1825 in Königsberg, † May 15 1879 in Tübingen) was a Protestant theologian and university lecturer.

Life

After studying Protestant theology in Königsberg and Berlin Diestel was there in 1851 lecturer at the University of Bonn in 1858 and associate professor of theology. Here he became close friends with Albrecht Ritschl. In 1862 he was appointed to a full professorship at the University of Greifswald, moved in 1867 to the University of Jena in 1872 at the University of Tübingen, where he died at the age of 54 after a brief illness.

Diestel published numerous exegetical works and the history of religion, but made especially for his history of the Old Testament in the Christian Church ( Jena 1869) a name. It wants to be more than a representation of the history of research, namely, " a comprehensive account of the way, as the Old Testament has been scientifically treated within the Christian church, from the beginning up to the present, understood theologically and practically utilized " (Preface, pp. III). As a liberal theologian, he led in the context of hostilities against Charles Leopold Adolf Sydow 1873 Jena explanation in terms of the defense of academic freedom.

His daughter, Meta was a famous singer.

Selections

• History of the Old Testament in the Christian Church. Maukes Verlag, Jena, 1869 (Reprint d Originalausg With an afterword by Siegfried Wagner - Leipzig:. . Zentralantiquariat the GDR, 1981)
• The blessing of Jacob in Genes. xlix explained historically, CA Schwetschke & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1853
• The Flood and the Flood legends of antiquity. C. Habel 1871