8vo. iv, [1], 327 pp., half-calf, spine rubbed & slightly damaged, light foxing to margins, otherwise in good condition, from the library of Dr GHA Juynboll, Ferdinand Dummler, Berlin, 1825.

Synopsis

Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (1799 – 1877), known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian and church leader. He was educated at the gymnasium and university there. He distinguished himself by his ability to learn languages. A love of Oriental languages and literature led him to exchange the University of Breslau for that of Berlin, in order to study to greater advantage,
He showed great interest in studying Sufism. In 1821 appeared his first work, Sufismus, sive theosophia Persarum pantheistica; following the same line of study he published Blütensammlung aus der morgenlandischen Mystik (1825) and Speculative Trinitätslehre des späteren Orients (1826). His well-known essay on the nature and moral influence of heathenism (1822) was published by Neander, with high commendation, in his Denkwürdigkeiten; and his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (1824) secured him a foremost place amongst the most suggestive, if not the most accurate, Biblical interpreters of that time.