Heinrich Julius Holtzmann    1832-1910 

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The 19th c. German scholar whose masterpiece, The Synoptic Gospels: Their Origin & Historical Character (1863), established scholarly consensus in favor of the Two Source hypothesis. Born in Karlsruhe, Holtzmann became professor of NT at Heidelberg (1865-74) and then Strasbourg (1874-1904). He wrote extensive commentaries on the gospels & studies on other NT works. But his earlier work on the synoptic problem remains his major legacy. For it defined the source theory that has been the basis of most critical research on the synoptic gospels ever since.    

Other On-line resources:

  • Holtzmann, Heinrich Julius - Friedrich W. Bautz' brief biographical essay (in German) with extensive bibliography (Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon).

 

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