Background
Wrede was born at Bücken in Hanover.
theologian university professor
Wrede was born at Bücken in Hanover.
He became an associate professor at Breslau in 1893, and full professor in 1896. He died in office in 1906. According to Wrede, the solution devised by the author of the Mark Gospel was to imply that Jesus kept his messiahship secret to his inner group of supporters.
He also wrote a crucial study of the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, which argued for its inauthenticity.
His work, and that of Albert Schweitzer himself mark the end of the First Quest or Old Quest into the historical Jesus. Schweitzer"s 1906 book was called "The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede".
(See the Quest for the historical Jesus).