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Olshausen, Detlev Johann Wilhelm
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
or a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born March 30,1766, at Nordheim, Hanover. He studied at Gottingen, and after completing his studies acted as private tutor-at different places. In 1794 he was deacon at Oldesloe, Holstein; in 1801 first preacher at Gluckstadt; in 1815 superintendent at Eutin, and died January 14, 1823. He wrote, Prolegomena zu einer Kritik aller sogenannten Beweise fur und wider Offenbarungen (Copenhagen, 1791): — De Immortalitate Hominum Sublata et Doctrina de Animi Simplicitate Certa (ibid. eod.): — De Usu Rationis in Religione Revelata (1792): — Lehrbuch der Moral und Religion (2d ed. 1799): — Predigten uber die ganze christliche Plichtenlehre, (Altona, 1798-1805, 8 volumes). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:126, 153, 203, 236; Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v. (B.P.)
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Olshausen, Detlev Johann Wilhelm'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/o/olshausen-detlev-johann-wilhelm.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
