Johann Christian Friedrich Steudel

Beginning in 1803, he worked as a vicar in Oberesslingen, and two years later, became a tutor at Tübinger Stift.

In 1808 he traveled to Paris, where he studied with Silvestre de Sacy and Carl Benedict Hase.

[1][2] He was a proponent of rational supernaturalism, and was the last prominent member of the so-called "Old Tübingen School" of theology.

During the latter part of his career, he spearheaded an attack on David Strauss's controversial book, Das Leben Jesu.

[2][5] The following are a few of Steudel's significant writings: After his death, his lectures on Old Testament theology were published by Gustav Friedrich Oehler.