Editing Johann Jakob Griesbach (section)

==Education and career==
He was born at [[Butzbach]], a small town in the state of [[Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt|Hesse-Darmstadt]], where his father, Konrad Kaspar (1705–1777), was pastor. Griesbach was educated at [[Frankfurt]], and at the universities of [[university of Tübingen|Tübingen]], [[university of Leipzig|Leipzig]] and [[university of Halle|Halle]], where he became one of [[Johann Salomo Semler|J. S. Semler]]'s most ardent disciples. It was Semler who induced him to turn his attention to the textual criticism of the New Testament. At the close of his undergraduate career he undertook a literary tour through Germany, the Netherlands, France and England.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} In England he may have met [[Henry Owen]] whose seminal work ''Observations on the Four Gospels'' (1764) is listed among the books of Griesbach's estate, although he does not seem to have acknowledged any indebtedness to Owen.

On his return to Halle, Griesbach acted for some time as ''Privatdozent'', but in 1773 was appointed to a professorial chair; in 1775 he went to the [[Friedrich Schiller University of Jena|University of Jena]], where he spent the rest of his life (though he received calls to other universities).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}