Darnel Schenkel, a German theologian, born at Dögerlin, Switzerland, Dec. 21, 1813. He studied in Basel and Göttingen, and in 1841 became a clergyman in Schaffhausen and a member of the grand council. In 1849 he went as professor of theology to Basel, and in 1851 to Heidelberg. His removal, demanded by a portion of the clergy in 1864 on account of his liberal views, was not granted by the authorities of Baden. In 1865 he was one of the most prominent founders of the German Protestant union. He edited the Allgemeine Kirchenzeitung from 1852 to 1859, and the Allgemeine hirchliche Zeitschrift, which he founded, from 1859 to 1872; and in 1867 he began to edit the Bibellexikon, which he completed in 1875 (5 vols., Leipsic). His principal works are: Das Wesen des Protestantismus (3 vols., Schaffhausen, 1846-'51; 2d ed., 1861); Christliche Dogmatik (2 vols., Wiesbaden, 1858-'9);.Das Charakerbild Jesu (1864; 4th ed., enlarged, 1874; English translation by W. H. Furness, 2 vols., Boston, 1866); and Bren-nende Fragen (1869).