Karl Theodor Keim

Background

Karl was born at Stuttgart on the 17th of December in 1825, in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Johann Christian Keim, was headmaster of a gymnasium.

Education

Karl Theodor received his early education and then proceeded to the Stuttgart Obergymnasium. In 1843 he went to the University of Tuebingen, where he studied philosophy under J. F. Reiff, a follower of Hegel, and Oriental languages under Heinrich Ewald and Heinrich Meier. F. C. Baur, the leader of the new Tubingen school, was lecturing on the New Testament and on the history of the church and of dogma, and by him, in particular, Keim was greatly impressed. In 1850 he visited the University of Bonn, where he attended some of the lectures of Friedrich Bleek, Richard Rothe, С. M. Arndt and Isaak Dorner.

Career

His first published work was Die Reformation der Reichstadt Ulrn (1851). He taught at Tubingen from June 1851 until 1856, when, having become a pastor, he was made a deacon at Esslingen, Wiirttemberg. In 1859 he was appointed archdeacon; but a few months later he was called to the University of Zurich as professor of theology (1859 - 1873), where he produced his important works.

Before this he had written on church history (e. g. Schwabische Reformations geschichte bis zum Augsburger Reichstag, 1855). His inaugural address at Zurich on the human development of Jesus, Die menschliche Entwicklung Jesu Christi (1861), and his Die geschichtliche Wiirde Jesu (1864) were preparatory to his chief work, Die Geschichte Jesu von Nazar a in ihrer Verkcttung mil dem Gesamtleben seines Volkes (3 vols. , 1867-1872; Eng. trans. , Jesus of Nazareth, and the National Life of Israel, 6 vols.), 1873-1882. In 1873 Keim was appointed professor of theology at Giessen. This post he resigned, through ill-health, shortly before his death on the 17th of November 1878.

His sermons - Freundesworte zur Gemeinde (2 vols. , 1861 - 1862); and Celsus' wahres Wort (1873). In 1881 H. Ziegler published one of Keim's earliest works, Rom und das Christenthum, with a biographical sketch. See also Ziegler's article in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie.

Achievements

• Karl belongs to the "mediation" school of theology. His famous works are Reformation sheets of the imperial city of Esslingen (1860); Ambrosius Blarer, the Swabian Reformer (1860); The conversion of Constantine d. Size to Christianity (1862).

Works

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  • Reformationsblätter Der Reichsstadt Eßlingen: Aus Den Quellen...

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  • Aus Dem Urchristenthum, Geschichtliche Untersuchungen (German Edition)

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Connections

Father:

Johann Christian Keim

teacher:

J. F. Reiff