Background
He was born at Fellbach, near Stuttgart, 19 November 1824.
theologian university professor
He was born at Fellbach, near Stuttgart, 19 November 1824.
He studied in the seminary of Blaubeuren 1837-1841, and theology at Tübingen 1841-1845.
He became repentant in theology at Tübingen 1849, and professor at Basel 1851. As a young man he was attracted by the views of Goethe and Hegel and enthusiastic for the criticism of Ferdinand Christian Baur. But he later became an adherent of the old Württemberg circle of theologians, of Johann Albrecht Bengel, Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, Lothar Roos, and others
He died at Basel on 2 May 1864.