The New International Encyclopædia/Schlatter, Adolf

SCHLATTER, shlät'ẽr, Adolf (1852—). A German theologian, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. He became professor in Bern in 1888, in Berlin, in 1893, and in Tübingen in 1897. He wrote Der Glaube im Neuen Testament (1885; 2d ed. 1896); commentaries on Romans (3d ed. 1895), on Hebrews (3d ed. 1898), on James and the Johannine Epistles (2d ed. 1900), on Matthew (2d ed. 1900); on John (1899), and on Mark and Luke (1900); Zur Topographie und Geschichte Palästinas (1893); and Israels Geschichte von Alexander dem Grossen bis Hadrian (1901). With Cremer he edited Beiträge zur Förderung Christlicher Theologie (1897 et seq.).