page_title: David Strauss
section_title: Later works
hierarchical_section_title: David Strauss / Later works
caption_attribution_description: David Strauß - Bild vor 1874 erstellt und daher Public Domain de:ja:画像:David Friedrich Strauss.jpg
context_page_description: David Friedrich Strauss was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he denied. His work was connected to the Tübingen School, which revolutionized study of the New Testament, early Christianity, and ancient religions. Strauss was a pioneer in the historical investigation of Jesus.
context_section_description: Strauss returned to theology in 1862, when he published a biography of H. S. Reimarus. Two years later in 1864, he published the Life of Jesus for the German People (Das Leben Jesu für das deutsche Volk bearbeitet) (13th ed., 1904). It failed to produce an effect comparable to that of the first Life, but it garnered numerous critical responses, which Strauss answered in his pamphlet Die Halben und die Ganzen (1865), directed specially against Daniel Schenkel (1813–1885) and Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1802–1869).
  His The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History (Der Christus des Glaubens und der Jesus der Geschichte) (1865) is a severe criticism of Schleiermacher's lectures on the life of Jesus, which were then first published.  From 1865 to 1872 Strauss lived in Darmstadt, and in 1870 he published his lectures on Voltaire.  His last work, Der alte und der neue Glaube translated as "On The Old and New Faith" (1872; English translation by M. Blind, 1873), produced almost as great a sensation as his Life of Jesus, and not least amongst Strauss's own friends, who wondered at his one-sided view of Christianity and his professed abandonment of spiritual philosophy for the materialism of modern science.  Nietzsche harshly critiqued this work in his first of Untimely Mediations. Strauss added an Afterword as Foreword (Nachwort als Vorwort) to the Fourth edition of the book (1873).  Soon thereafter, Strauss fell ill, and he died in Ludwigsburg on February 8, 1874.
caption: David Strauss in 1874
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