Lipsius

Lipsius, RICHARD ADELBERT, a great German theologian, was born at Gera, February 14, 1830, studied theology at Leipzig, and, after serving there as privat-docent and professor extra-ordinary, was called to fill a chair at Vienna in 1861, at Kiel in 1865, and at Jena in 1871. He died 19th August 1892. Lipsius made contributions of the greatest importance to theological science in the fields of dogmatics and the history of dogma, the philosophy of religion, and New Testament exegesis and criticism. In 1875 he founded the Jahrbücher für Protest. Theologie. Among his books are Glaube und Lehre (1871), Die Quellen der Röm. Petrusage (1872), Lehrbuch der Evangelisch-Protest. Dogmatik (1876), Die apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und Apostellegenden (1883-87), and Philosophie und Religion (1885).—Of his brothers, JUSTUS HERMANN (born at Leipzig, 9th May 1834) is eminent as a philologist. After teaching at Leipzig, Meissen, Grimma, he became in 1869 extra-ordinary professor of Classical Philology at the university of Leipzig, and in 1877 ordinary professor of the same, and director of the Russian philological seminary. His books are an edition of the De Corona of Demosthenes (1876), and of Meier and Schömann's work, Der Attische Prozess (1883-85). He also collaborated with Curtius, Lange, and Ribbeck in the well-known Leipziger Studien, established in 1878. Their sister MARIE (born at Leipzig, 30th December 1837) has made valuable contributions to music and its history, under the pseudonym of La Mara, the most important being Musikerl. Studienköpfe (5 vols. 1868-82), Gedanken berühmter Musiker über ihre Kunst (1873), and a German translation of F. Liszt's Chopin (1880).