Friedrich Adolf Philippi
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Friedrich Adolf Philippi (October 15, 1809, Berlin - August 29, 1882, Rostock) was a Lutheran theologian of Jewish origin.
He was the son of a wealthy Jewish banker, a friend of Mendelssohn.
Converted to Christianity in 1829, he studied philosophy and theology at Berlin and Leipsic (Ph.D. 1831), and became successively a teacher at a private school in Dresden and at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium at Berlin (1833).
In 1837 he received his diploma as Lutheran minister, and in 1838 was admitted as privat-docent to the theological faculty of the University of Berlin.
In 1841 he was elected professor of theology at the University of Tartu; he received the degree of D.D. "honoris causa" from the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1843.
[edit] Literary works
Of Philippi's works may be mentioned:
- "Die Lehre vom Thätigen Gehorsam Christi", Berlin, 1841;
- "Kirchliche Glaubenslehre", Gütersloh, 1854-1879 (3d ed. 1883-85), a standard work from the Orthodox Lutheran point of view;
- "Vorlesungen über Symbolik", ib. 1883
[edit] Bibliography of Jewish Encyclopedia
- L. Schulze, Friedrich Adolf Philippi, Nördlingen, 1883;
- De le Roi, Juden-Mission, 2d ed., i. 204, Leipzig, 1899
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain. ([1])
- By Isidore Singer & Frederick T. Haneman
