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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

THEODOR, a German theologian; born in Mörs, Prussia, Oct. 10, 1838. He was appointed Professor of Theology in the University of Erlangen in 1878, and wrote "Marcellus of Ancyra" (1867); "The Shepherd of Herof Antioch" mas" (1868); "Ignatius" us (1873); "The Acts of St. John" (1880); "Cyprian of Antioch and the German Story of Faust" (1882); "Researches Into the History of the New Testament Canon" (5 vols, 1881-1893); "The Gospel of Peter" (1893); "Introduction to the New Testament" (1897). ZÄHRINGEN, the house from which the former grand-ducal family of Baden took its origin. The name is derived from the ruined castle of Zähringen, in a village of the same name, 2 miles N. of Freiburg in Baden. The first founders of the family were from the 8th to the 10th century Counts of Breisgau, but the authenticated history of the house really begins with Bertold I., "the Bearded," who became duke in 1050, was Heinmuch esteemed by the Emperor ror rich III., and received from him the reversion of the duchy of Swabia. He was, however, passed over in 1057 by Agnes, the widow of Heinrich III., in favor of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, and received in 1061 as compensation the duchy of Kärnthen with the march of Verona. He became reconciled with Rudolf in 1070, and fought by his side at Melrichstadt, Aug. 7, 1078. When he saw from Lintburg the devastation of his lands by Heinrich IV. he became insane, and died soon after-Nov. 8, 1078. His elder son, Hermann, had died in 1074, leaving a son, Hermann II., who married Judith of Baden, and from whom the present house of Baden is directly descended. The younger son of Bertold "the Bearded," Bertold II., Duke of Zähringen (died 1111), inherited the dominions of his father-in-law, Rudolf of Swabia, and was followed by Bertold III. (fell at Molsheim, March 3, 1122), the founder of Freiburg. His brother and successor Konrad, who founded Münster, was made in 1127 by the Emperor Lothar, "Rektor" of Burgundy, where his son Bertold IV. (died 1168) and his grandson Bertold V., the founder of Bern (1191), received rich possessions. As Bertold V. died childless (Feb. 18, 1218), his dominions fell to the nearest heirs, the Duke of Teck, who sprang from a brother of Bertold IV., and the elder Baden line. His Swabian possessions fell to his sister Agnes, the wife of the Graf von Urach, and his sister Anna, wife of the Graf von Ki- Swiss mostly his youngest burg. The remainder, including the towns Zürich, Bern, Solothurn, and Offenburg, fell by testament to the emperor. Greek