Friedrich Adolf Philippi (October 15, 1809 in Berlin – August 29, 1882 in

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) was a

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theologian of

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origin. He was the son of a wealthy Jewish banker, a friend of the Mendelssohn family. Converted to Christianity in 1829, he studied philosophy and theology at Berlin and

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(PhD 1831), and became successively a teacher at a private school in

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and at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium at Berlin (1833). In 1837 he received his diploma as Lutheran minister, and in 1838 was admitted as ''

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'' to the theological faculty of the

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of Berlin. In 1841 he was elected professor of theology at the

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; he received the degree of

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"''

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''" from the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1843.

Bibliography

*
Die Lehre vom Thätigen Gehorsam Christi
', Berlin, 1841 *
Kirchliche Glaubenslehre
', Berlin, 1859 (Volumes 3-4) *
Kirchliche Glaubenslehre
', Berlin, 1879 (Volumes 6) *
Commentar über den Brief Pauli an die Römer
', Frankfurt, 1856 *
De Celsi, Adversarii Christianorum, Philosophandi Genere
', Berlin, 1868 *
Vorlesungen über Symbolik
', Gütersloh, 1883

External links

Biography at Jewish Encyclopedia

Biography at HaGefen Publishing

Contemporary Obituary: ''Friedrich Adolf Philippi—A Jewish Witness to the Gospel''

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Philippi Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism 1809 births 1882 deaths 19th-century German Jews German Lutherans 19th-century Lutherans Writers from Berlin