BAUDISSIN, WOLF WILHELM von. - Protestant theologian, exegete of the "religionsgeschichtliche Schule," b. at Sophienhof, near Kiel, on 26 Oct. 1847, d. at Berlin on 6 Feb. 1926. In 1874 a lecturer in Old Testament at Leipzig, in 1876 extraordinary professor and in 1880 ordinary professor at Strasbourg, he moved in 1881 to Marburg and in 1900 to Berlin, where he taught until 1921. He concerned himself especially with the Semitic religions in relation to the Israelite religion.

His principal works are: Studien zur semitischen Religionsgeschichte (2 vols., Leipzig 1876-78); Geschichte des alttestamentlichen Priestertums (ibid. 1889); Einleitung in die Bücher des Alten Testaments (ibid. 1901); Esmun-Asklepios (ibid. 1906); Adonis und Esmun (ibid. 1911); and above all Kyrios als Gottesname im Judentum und seine Stellung in der Religionsgeschichte (4 vols., ibid. 1926-29), edited by Otto Eissfeldt.

Bibliography

BIBL.: The complete list of B.'s publications is found in Festschrift Baudissin zum 70. Geburtstag (Beilefte zur Zeitschrift f. die alttest. Wissenschaft, 33), Giessen 1918, pp. 1-16 and 419-20.

Arduino Kleinhaus

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