Schultz, Hermann, theologian, born at Lüchow in Hanover, December 30, 1836, studied at Göttingen and Erlangen, and became professor at Basel in 1864, at Strasburg in 1872, Heidelberg in 1874, and Göttingen in 1876. There also he became university preacher and consistorial councillor.
His writings include Die Voraussetzungen der Christlichen Lehre von der Unsterblichkeit (1861); Alttestamentliche Theologie (1869; 4th ed. 1889; Eng. trans. 1892), a work masterly in its religious insight; Die Lehre von der Gottheit Christi (1881), in which he applies Ritschl's method to the central question of Christianity, the Divinity being apprehended neither from the metaphysical nor eschatological point of view, but as the expression of the experience of the Christian community, a human personal life having become the expression of an eternal divine life through a moral rather than a natural miracle; a volume of sermons (1882); Lehre vom Heiligen Abendmal (1886); and Grundriss d. prakt. Theologie (1889); Grundriss d. Evangel. Dogmatik (1890).