Albrecht Ritschl

Albrecht Ritschl was a German theologian.

Ritschl was born in Berlin. His father, Georg Karl Benjamin Ritschl , became in 1810 a pastor at the church of St Mary in Berlin, and from 1827 to 1854 was general superintendent and evangelical bishop of Pomerania. Albrecht Ritschl studied at Bonn, Halle, Heidelberg and Tbingen. At Halle he came under Hegelian influences through the teaching of Julius Schaller and Johann Erdmann. In 1845 he became a follower of the Tbingen school, and in his work Das Evangelium Marcions und das kanonische Evangelium des Lukas, published in 1846 and in which he argued that the Gospel of Luke was based on the apocryphal Gospel of Marcion, he appears as a disciple of the Hegelian New Testament scholar Ferdinand Baur. This did not last long with him, however, for the second edition of his most important work, on the origin of the Old Catholic Church , shows considerable divergence from the first edition , and reveals an entire emancipation from Baurs method.

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