Karl Theodor Keim

Karl Theodor Keim

Karl Theodor Keim (born December 17, 1815 in Stuttgart , † November 17, 1878 in Gießen ) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar , theologian and church historian .

Life

At the seminar Maulbronn Karl Theodor Keim, who was born in Stuttgart on 17 December of the year 1815 was, in theology teaches. From 1851 to 1855 he was a repetitionist at the theological faculty at the University of Tübingen and in 1856 became a deacon in Esslingen am Neckar . As a student he became a member of the Tübingen royal society Roigel . Shortly before 1861 he was appointed professor of theology at the University of Zurich . In 1873, twelve years later, he was appointed to the theological faculty of the University of Giessen . Even then his health was in poor health; on November 17, 1878 he finally died there of neuropathy . In his last days, Karl Keim was cared for by his sister.

Works

• The Reformation of the Imperial City of Ulm (1851)
• Swabian Reformation history up to the Augsburg Reichstag (1855)
• Reformation sheets of the imperial city of Esslingen (1860)
• Ambrosius Blarer (1860)
• The Conversion of Constantine the Great to Christianity (1861)
• The historical Christ (1865/1866)
• From early Christianity (1878)
• Celsus , Alethes logos. True word. Oldest pamphlet of ancient worldview against Christianity from AD 178. Recovered from d. Greek trans., under. and ext. by Karl Theodor Keim (1873)

literature

• Heinrich Holtzmann :  Keim, Karl Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 534 f.
• Eberhard H. Pältz:  Keim, Karl Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 410 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Overview of Karl Theodor Keim's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1860 to summer semester 1873)