Gustav Friedrich Oehler

He was born in Ebingen, Württemberg, and was educated privately and at the University of Tübingen where he was much influenced by J. C. F. Steudel, professor of Old Testament theology.

In 1837, after a term of Oriental study at Berlin, he went to Tübingen as tutor (German: Repetent), becoming in 1840, a professor at the seminary and pastor in Schönthal.

[1] In 1845, he published his Prolegomena zur Theologie des Alten Testaments, accepted an invitation to Breslau and received the degree of doctor from the University of Bonn.

He declined a call to Erlangen as successor to Franz Delitzsch, and died at Tübingen in 1872.

He admitted the composite authorship of the Pentateuch and the Book of Isaiah, and did much to counteract the antipathy against the Old Testament that had been fostered by Schleiermacher.