Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard

Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard (18 January 1818 – 23 July 1888) was a German Protestant theologian.

In 1847 he was appointed professor of theology at Erlangen, a chair which he resigned in 1861; in 1875 he became pastor of the French reformed church in the same city.

[1] As a critic, Ebrard occupied a very moderate standpoint; as a writer his chief works were Christliche Dogmatik (2 volumes, 1851), Vorlesungen über praktische Theologie (1864), and Apologetik (1874–1875, Eng.

[1] His work on John's Gospel, Das Evangelium Johannis und die neueste Hypothese über seine Entstehung was published in 1845.

In the department of belles-lettres he wrote a good deal under such pseudonyms as Christian Deutsch, Gottfried Flammberg and Sigmund Sturm.