Oehler, GUSTAV FRIEDRICH, one of the greatest Old Testament scholars of the 19th century, was born at Ebingen, 10th June 1812, studied at Tübingen, laboured as a teacher at Basel and Tübingen, became in 1840 professor in the theological seminary in Schöntal, and in 1845 ordinary professor of Theology at Breslau. In 1852 he was called to Tübingen to be head of the theological seminary, and here he died, 19th February 1872. The chief books of this learned and reverent scholar were Prolegomena zur Theologie des Alten Testaments (1845), Die Grundzüge der Alt-testamentlichen Weisheit (1854), Ueber das Verhältniss der A. T. Prophetie zur heidnischen Mantik (1861), Theologie des Alten Testaments (1873-74; Eng. trans. 1874-75), and Lehrbuch der Symbolik (1876). See the study by Knapp (Tüb. 1876).
Eland, a long and narrow island in the Baltic, 4 to 17 miles from the east coast of Sweden. It is 55 miles long and 5 to 12 broad; pop. 37,513. Scarcely more than a limestone cliff, it is scantily covered with soil, but in some parts it is well wooded, and has good pasture-ground; there are large alum-works; and the fishing is excellent all round the coasts.