Pfleiderer
OTтo, theologian; born in Stetten, Württemberg, Sept. 1, 1839; studied under Baur, at Tübingen, from 1857 till 1861; became pastor at Heilbronn in 1868, and superintendent at Jena in 1870, exchanged for the chair of Theology there. In 1875 he was called to be Professor of Systematic Theology at Berlin. In New Testament criticism Pfleiderer belonged to the younger critical school. He made his name as well known in England and America as in Germany by a series of works which no serious student of philosophy or theology can afford to overlook. Of these the chief are "Religion, its Essence and History" (1869); "Paulinism" (1873 English translation 1877); "Philosophy of Religion" (1878); "Outlines of Christian Faith and Ethics" (1880); "The Development of Theology since Kant" (1880); "The Philosophy and Development of Religion" He died July 18, 1908. (1904).
His brother, EDMUND PFLEIDERER, born in Stetten Oct. 12, 1842, studied at Tübingen; was made Professor of Philosophy at Kiel in 1873, whence he was called to Tübingen in 1878. His writings include "Studies on Leibnitz" (1870); "On Empiricism and Scepticism in Hume's Philosophy" (1874); "Modern Pessimism" (1875); "Kantian Criticism and English Philosophy" (1881); "Lotze" (2d ed. 1884); "Heraclitus of Ephesus" (1886), etc. He died April 2, 1902.