Vatke

Vatke, WILHELM, theologian, born at Behndorf near Magdeburg, 14th March 1806, habilitated at Berlin as privat-docent in theology in 1830, was appointed professor extra-ordinary in 1837, and died 18th April 1882. His works were Die Religion des Alten Testaments (1835), Die menschliche Freiheit (1841), Historischkritische Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1886) and Religionsphilosophie (1888). He grasped the idea of the post-Exilic origin of the Priestly Code in the Pentateuch (q.v.) as early as Graf, but the names of both have paled before those of Kuenen and Wellhausen.