Lange

Lange, JOHANN PETER, theologian, born 10th April 1802, at Sonnborn, near Elberfeld, studied at Bonn, and after holding several pastoral charges became professor of Theology at Zurich in 1841, and in 1854 at Bonn, where he died, 9th July 1884. He wrote many works, of which the best known are a Life of Jesus Christ (1839; Eng. trans. by Marcus Dods), treatises on dogmatics (1849-52), Christian ethics (1878), hermeneutics, theological psychology, and his great Bibelwerk, a series of commentaries on the gospels (trans. into English), and, with other scholars, on the whole Old and New Testaments (also trans. into English).