Editing Édouard Guillaume Eugène Reuss (section)

==Life==

He was born at [[Strasbourg]], where he studied [[philology]] (1819–22). He went on to study theology at [[university of Göttingen|Göttingen]] under [[Johann Gottfried Eichhorn]]; and [[Semitic languages|Oriental Languages]] at [[university of Halle|Halle]] under [[Wilhelm Gesenius]], and afterwards at Paris under [[Silvestre de Sacy]] (1827–28). In 1828 he became ''[[Privatdozent]]'' at Strasbourg. From 1829 to 1834 he taught [[Biblical criticism]] and Oriental languages at the Strasbourg Theological School; he then became assistant, and afterwards, in 1836, regular professor of theology at that university.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He became Professor of Old Testament at the same institution in 1864.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kümmel|first=W. G.|title=The New Testament: The History of the Investigation of its Problems|year=1972|publisher=Abingdon Press|location=Nashville|isbn=0-687-27926-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newtestamenthist00kumm/page/487 487]|url=https://archive.org/details/newtestamenthist00kumm/page/487}}</ref> Reuss was appointed as a regular member of the {{Lang|de|[[Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft]]|italic=no}} in May 1846. The sympathies of Reuss were German rather than French, and after the annexation of [[Alsace]] to Germany he remained at Strasbourg, and retained his professorship till he retired on a pension in 1888.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He died in the same city.

Reuss belonged to the liberals in the [[Lutheran]] [[Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine]]. His critical position was to some extent that of [[Karl Heinrich Graf|K. H. Graf]] and [[Julius Wellhausen]]: he was in a sense their forerunner, and was actually for a time Graf's teacher. The originator of the new movement, he hesitated to publish the results of his studies.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

His son, [[Rodolphe Reuss|Ernst Rudolf]] (1841–1924), was in 1873 appointed city librarian at Strasbourg.