Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De Wette, a German theologian, born at Ulla, near Weimar, Jan. 14, 1780, died in Basel, June 16, 1849. Having studied at Weimar and Jena, he was appointed professor of philosophy, and subsequently of theology, at Heidelberg, and received in 1810 a professorship at the university of Berlin, where he rapidly acquired great reputation both as a teacher and as a writer. This situation he lost in 1819, in consequence of a letter of consolation written to the mother of Sand, the murderer of Kotzebue, which was regarded by the government as extenuating that political murder. He was afterward elected professor of theology in the university of Basel. His works are among the most remarkable productions of German theological science and criticism. The most important of them are : Beitrage zur Einleitung in das Alte Testament (2 vols., 1806-'7); Gommentar uber die Psalmen (1811); Lehrbuch der he-braisch-judischen Archaologie (1814); Ueber Beligion und Theologie (1815); Lehrbuch der christlichen Dogmatik (2 vols., 1813-'16); " Critical and Historical Introduction to the Old and New Testaments " (2 vols., 1817-'26; the Introduction to the Old Testament was translated and enlarged by Theodore Parker, Boston, 1843, and that to the New by Frederick Frothingham, Boston, 1858); Christliche Sit-tenlehre (3 vols., 1819-'21); "Theodore, or the Skeptic's Conversion" (1822; translated by James F. Clarke, Boston, 1841); "Lectures on Practical Ethics" (1823; translated by Samuel Osgood, Boston, 1842); Opuscula Theologica (1830); Das Wesen des christlichen Glau-bens (1846); a new translation of the Bible, executed together with Augusti, in 6 vols. (1809-'14); and an edition of Luther's works.

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