Adolf Lasson

He was educated at the Gymnasium Carolinum, Neu-Strelitz, and the University of Berlin (1848–52; philosophy with Friedrich Eduard Beneke, classical philology with A. Boeckh, Lachmann and Trendelenburg, theology and law).

He embraced Christianity in 1853, and as of 1906 held the position of honorary professor at the University of Berlin.

By the time he converted to Christianity he changed his family name from the original Lazarussohn to Lasson.

Adolf Lasson was influenced by German Idealism and by the writings of the Hegelian theologian David Friedrich Strauss.

[1] He also edited a translation into German of Giordano Bruno's "De Causa" (3d ed.