Reuss, EDUARD, a learned Protestant theologian, was born at Strasburg, July 18, 1804. He first studied philology at Strasburg, then theology there, at Göttingen, and at Halle, and oriental languages at Paris under Silvestre de Sacy; next qualified as privat-docent in the theological faculty at Strasburg, and filled a chair as ordinary professor from 1836 to 1838, and again after the establishment of the university from 1872 to 1888. He died April 15, 1891.
His chief works are Geschichte der heiligen Schriften Neuen Testaments (1842; 6th ed. 1887; Eng. trans. Boston, 1884); Geschichte der heiligen Schriften Alten Testaments (1881); and Histoire de la Théologie Chrétienne au Siècle Apostolique (1852; 3d ed. 1864; Eng. trans. 1872); Histoire du Canon des Saintes Écritures dans l'Église Chrétienne (1862; Eng. trans. Edin. 1884); and La Bible, Traduction nouvelle avec Commentaire (19 vols. 1877-79). With Baum and Cunitz he commenced in 1863 the publication of a monumental edition of Calvin's works (44 vols. up to his death).