biography
| name: |
Strauss, David Friedrich
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pronunciation:
[shtrows]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1808–74)
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| biography:
| Theologian, born in Ludwigsburg, SW Germany. He studied for the Church at Tübingen, and lectured on philosophy there as a disciple of Hegel. In his Leben Jesu (1835–6, trans by George Eliot, 1846) he argued that the supernatural element of the Gospel was a collection of historical myths created by popular legend. The book raised such a storm of controversy that he was dismissed, and also debarred from taking up a professorship at Zürich in 1839. His other major work was Die christliche Glaubenslehre (1840–1), a review of Christian dogma. He later lived in Ludwigsburg and Darmstadt, where he worked as a legislator while continuing to write. |
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