Wilhelm Theophor Dittenberger

Wilhelm Theophor Dittenberger (30 April 1807, in Teningen – 11 May 1871, in Weimar) was a German Protestant theologian.

He was the father of classical philologist Wilhelm Dittenberger (1840–1906) and son-in-law to theologian Karl Daub (1765–1836).

[1] From 1847 to 1852, he was a professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg,[2] afterwards serving as Kirchenrath, Oberhofprediger and Oberpfarrer in Weimar.

[1] Along with Karl Zittel (1802–1871), he published the Zeitschrift für deutsch-protestantische Kirchenverfassung (Journal of the German Protestant Church constitution).

[1] With Philip Marheineke, he edited Daub's Vorlesungen über die philosophische Anthropologie (1838); (Lectures on philosophical anthropology).