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He was educated at the universities of Erlangen and Halle . He was appointed professor of Theology at Erlangen in 1836 and at Leipzig in 1845. He was a strong Lutheran and exercised a powerful influence in that direction as court preacher in Dresden and as president of the Protestant consistory at Munich .

His chief works were ''Theologische Encyklopadie und Methodologie'' (1837) and ''Die christliche Ethik'' (1842, Eng. trans. 1868). He died on the 5th of September 1879, having, a few years earlier, written an autobiography under the title ''Bruchstucke aus dem Leben eines suddeutschen Theologen''.