Education
Although Baur was his teacher, he did not attach himself to the Tübingen school. In reply to the contention that there are traces of a sharp conflict between two parties, Paulinists and Petrinists, he says that "we find variety coupled with agreement, and unity with difference, between Paul and the earlier apostles. We recognize the one spirit in the many gifts.".
Career
A disciple of Johann August Wilhelm Neander, he belonged to the extreme right of the school of mediating theologians. His Das apostolische und das nachapostolische Zeitalter (1851), which developed out of a prize essay (1849), passed through three editions in Germany (3rd ed, 1885), and was translated into English (2 vols, 1886). The work which in his own opinion was his greatest, Johann von Wiclif und die Vorgeschichte der Reformation (2 vols, 1873), appeared in English with the title John Wycliffe and his English Precursors (1878, new ed, 1884).
An earlier work, Geschichte des engl.
Deismus (1841), was a contribution to the study of religious thought in England. Lechler"s other works include Geschichte der Presbyterialund Synodal-verfassung (1854), Urkundenfunde zur Geschichte des christl.
Altertums (1886), and biographies of Thomas Bradwardine (1862) and Robert Grosseteste (1867). He wrote part of the commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in Johann Peter Lange"s Bibelwerk.
From 1882 he edited with F. West. Dibelius the Beiträge zur sächsischen Kirchengeschichte.
Johannes Hus (1890) was published after his death. Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, educated (1911). "article name needed".
Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed).
Cambridge University Press.