Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard (18 January 1818 – 23 July 1888) was a German Protestant

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Biography

Born at

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, he was educated in his native town and at

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, and after teaching in a private family became ''

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'' at Erlangen (1841) and then professor of theology at

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(1844). In 1847 he was appointed professor of theology at

, a chair which he resigned in 1861; in 1875 he became pastor of the French reformed church in the same city. As a critic, Ebrard occupied a very moderate standpoint; as a writer his chief works were ''Christliche Dogmatik'' (2 volumes, 1851), ' (1864), and ''Apologetik'' (1874–1875, Eng. trans. 1886). His work on

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, ' was published in 1845. He also edited and completed

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's commentary, himself writing the volumes on the

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, the

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, and

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. In the department of ''belles-lettres'' he wrote a good deal under such

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s as Christian Deutsch, Gottfried Flammberg and Sigmund Sturm.

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Johannes Heinrich
*''Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews'' (1853; trans. from the German by Rev. John Fulton). Textual PDF http://epelorient.free.fr/ebrard/ebrard_hebrews.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Ebrard, Johannes 1818 births 1888 deaths People from Erlangen 19th-century German Protestant theologians 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers