Ludwig Diestel (28 September 1825 – 15 May 1879) was a German Protestant

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

born in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...

. He studied at several universities and in 1851 became a lecturer at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

. In 1858 at Bonn he became an associate professor of theology. Later on, he served as a professor at the universities of Greifswald (1862),

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

(1867) and Tübingen (1872). Diestel was known for his liberal-minded theological views. He specialized in

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

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and was the author the highly acclaimed ''Geschichte des Alten Testamentes in der christlichen Kirche'' ("History of the

in the

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"), (1868). Other noted works by Diestel include: * ''Der Segen Jakob's in Genesis, xlix historisch erläutert''. (

Jacob's Blessing The Blessing of Jacob is a prophetic poem that appears in Genesis at and mentions each of Jacob's twelve sons. Genesis presents the poem as the words of Jacob to his sons when Jacob is about to die. Like the Blessing of Moses, Genesis 49 assess ...

Genesis Genesis may refer to: Bible * Book of Genesis, the first book of the biblical scriptures of both Judaism and Christianity, describing the creation of the Earth and of mankind * Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...

, historically explained); CA Schwetschke & Son, Brunswick, 1853 * ''Die Sintflut und die Flutsagen des Alterthums'' (The deluge and flood legends of ancient times); C. Habel, 1871 His wife was Sophie Henriette Emmy Antonie Delius (1844 – 1923). The couple had three daughters and three sons each. His daughter

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was a well-known German

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and

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singer.

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1825 births 1879 deaths 19th-century German Protestant theologians Writers from Königsberg Academic staff of the University of Jena Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Academic staff of the University of Tübingen German male non-fiction writers 19th-century male writers {{Germany-theologian-stub