Ernst Sellin

Ernst Sellin (26 May 1867 in Alt Schwerin – 1 January 1946 in Epichnellen bei Eisenach) was a German Protestant theologian.

During 1897–1908 he taught at the Protestant faculty of theology in Vienna, during 1908–1913 at the University of Rostock, during 1913–1921 in Kiel and in 1921–1935 in Berlin.

[1] Sellin was Old Testament scholar and a pioneer of application of archaeology into Biblical sciences.

Sellin's main topic was the study of the Old Testament in historical, religio-historical and theological perspectives.

Probably his most successful book was his Einleitung in das Alte Testament from 1910, which was updated and expanded by himself (until 7th.