Holsten

Holsten, KARL CHRISTIAN JOHANN, an eminent Protestant theologian, born at Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 31st March 1825. He studied theology and philology at Leipzig, Berlin, and Rostock, and became in 1852 a teacher at the Rostock gymnasium. In 1870 he was called to the Bern High School as an extra-ordinary professor, next year became ordinary professor, and in 1876 obeyed a call to a similar post at Heidelberg. His startling contribution to Pauline theology, Zum Evangelium des Paulus und Petrus (1867), was followed by Das Evangelium des Paulus (vol. i. 1880), Die drei ursprünglichen, noch ungeschriebenen Evangelien (1885), and Die Synoptischen Evangelien nach der Form ihres Inhalts (1886). He died 27th Jan. 1897.