Keim

Keim, Theodore, born at Stuttgart in 1825,and educated at Tubingen, entered upon a pastoral career first at his native place and then at Esslingen. In 1860 he became Professor of Theology at Zurich, being transferred later on to Giessen, where he died in 1878. His earliest works deal with the history of German Christianity, or take the form of sermons, but stirred by the Rationalistic criticism of the day, he devoted his later efforts to the building up of a historical character of Christ. After two preliminary essays he brought out his great treatise, The History of Jesus of Nazareth.