Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind (February 17, 1767 – November 12, 1829) was a German Evangelical

Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s and gained popularity in the United States during the series of Great Awakenings of the 18th and 19th century.Its key commitments are:...

 theologian born in Neuenstadt am Kocher

Neuenstadt am Kocher

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For several years (1783–1791) he was a student at the Protestant seminar of Tübingen

Tübingen

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, followed by extensive travels throughout Germany. Afterwards he was repentant at Tübinger Stift

Tübinger Stift

The Tübinger Stift is a hall of residence and teaching; it is owned and supported by the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, and located in the university city of Tübingen, in South West Germany. The Stift was originally founded as an Augustinian monastery in the Middle Ages...

, followed by a vicariate in Stuttgart

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 (1795), and later serving as Diakonus (deacon) in Urach. In 1798 he became a professor at the University of Tübingen, and in 1805 moved to Stuttgart

Stuttgart

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, where he was appointed Oberhofprediger and Konsistorialrat.

Süskind was a disciple of Gottlob Christian Storr

Gottlob Christian Storr

Gottlob Christian Storr was a German Protestant theologian born in Stuttgart.He studied philosophy, theology and other subjects at the University of Tübingen, and following his theological examination in 1768, undertook an educational journey through Germany, Holland, England and France...

 (1746–1805), and a prominent member of the so-called Ältere Tübinger Schule (Older Tübingen School). Within this group he excelled in the field of dialectics, and also served as apologist in defense of Biblical Supranaturalism.

From 1803 to 1816 he was editor of the Magazin für christliche Dogmatik und Moral (Magazine for Christian Dogmatics and Morals), and in 1809 was involved in the liturgical

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 reorganization in Württemberg

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Selected publications

• Über das Recht der Vernunft in Ansehung der negativen Bestimmung der Offenbarung (About the Right of Reason in View of the Negative Determination of Revelation), (1797)
• In welchem Sinne hat Jesus die Göttlichkeit seiner Religions- und Sittenlehre behauptet? (In what Sense has Jesus the Divinity of Religious and Moral Claims?), (1802)
• Über die Pestalozzische Methode und ihre Einführung in die Volksschulen (About the Pestalozzi
  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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  Method and its Introduction into Elementary Schools), (1810)