Education
University of Tübingen. University of Bonn.
priest theologian university professor
University of Tübingen. University of Bonn.
After studying at Tübingen and Bonn, where he made special studies in the exegesis of the Old Testament and in Oriental languages, he was ordained priest when twenty-eight years old. Soon after this he became assistant lecturer at Tübingen, and in 1840 regular professor of Old Testament exegesis.