He was born at Eschenbergen, near Gotha, Augusti was of Jewish descent, his grandfather having been a converted rabbi.
[2] Augusti had little sympathy with the modern philosophical interpretations of dogma, and he held to the traditional faith.
His works on theology (Lehrbuch Der Christlichen Dogmengeschichte, 1805) are simple statements of fact; they do not attempt a speculative treatment of their subjects.
[2] In addition to these, his most important writings are the Denkwürdigkeiten aus der Christlichen Archäologie, 12 vols.
(1817–1831), a partially digested class of materials, and the Handbuch der christlichen Archäologie, (1836–1837), which gives the substance of the larger work in a more compact and systematic form.