Friedrich Adolf Philippi
Male, Deceased Person
1809 – 1882
Who was Friedrich Adolf Philippi?
Friedrich Adolf Philippi was a Lutheran theologian of Jewish 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 Leipzig, and became successively a teacher at a private school in Dresden and at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium at Berlin.
In 1837 he received his diploma as Lutheran minister, and in 1838 was admitted as privatdozent to the theological faculty of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
In 1841 he was elected professor of theology at the University of Dorpat; he received the degree of D.D. "honoris causa" from the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1843.
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- Born
- Oct 15, 1809
Berlin - Religion
- Christianity
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Died
- Aug 29, 1882
Rostock
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on July 23, 2013
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