Riehm, EDWARD (KARL AUGUST)

Riehm, EDWARD (KARL AUGUST), a learned Protestant theologian, born at Diersburg in Baden, December 20, 1830. He studied at Heidelberg and Halle, became vicar at Durlach in 1853, garrison-preacher at Mannheim in 1854, and qualified as privat-docent in the theological faculty at Heidelberg in 1858. He was appointed an extra-ordinary professor here in 1861, at Halle in 1862, and ordinary professor at the latter in 1866. He died April 5, 1888. Of his numerous books most important are Der Lehrbegriff des Hebräerbriefs (1858-59; 2d ed. 1867); Die Messianischen Weissagungen (1875; 2d ed. 1886; Eng. trans. 1890); Der Begriff der Sühne im Alten Testament (1877); and the posthumous Altestamentliche Theologie (ed. by Pahncke, 1890) and Einführung in d. Alte Testament (ed. by A. Brandt, 2 vols. 1889-90). He edited the second edition of Hupfeld's Commentary on the Psalms (4 vols. 1867-71) and the invaluable Handwörterbuch des biblischen Alterthums (1884), and was from 1863 joint-editor of the quarterly Theologische Studien und Kritiken.