Editing Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke

{{Short description|German theologian (1791-1855)}}
[[Image:Friedrich Lücke.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke]]
'''Gottfried Christian Friedrich Lücke''' (24 August 1791 – 4 February 1855) was a German [[theology|theologian]].

Luecke was born at [[Egeln]] near [[Magdeburg]], where his father was a merchant.  He studied theology at [[university of Halle|Halle]] and [[university of Göttingen|Göttingen]]. In 1814 he received the degree of doctor in philosophy from Halle; in 1816 he moved to the [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Friedrich Wilhelm University]], [[Berlin]], where he became licentiate in theology, and qualified as ''[[Privatdozent]]''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=105}}<ref name=DB>[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118575031.html#ndbcontent Lücke, Friedrich] In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, {{ISBN|3-428-00196-6}}, S. 447.</ref>

He soon became friendly with [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]] and [[Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette|de Wette]], and was associated with them in 1819 in the redaction of the ''Theologische Zeitschrift''.<ref>[http://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/jportal_jparticle_00177686 Theologische Zeitschrift]</ref> Meanwhile, his lectures and publications (among the latter a ''Grundriss der Neutestamentlichen Hermeneutik'', 1817) had brought him into considerable repute, and he was appointed professor extraordinarius at the new [[University of Bonn]] in the spring of 1818; in the following autumn he became professor ordinarius. From Bonn, where he had [[Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti|JCW Augusti]] (1772–1841), [[Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler|JKL Gieseler]], and [[Karl Immanuel Nitzsch]] for colleagues,<ref name=DB/> he was called in 1827 to Göttingen to succeed [[Karl Friedrich Stäudlin|KF Staudlin]] (1761-1826). In that year he helped to found the ''Theologische Studien und Kritiken'', the chief organ of the "mediation" theology (''Vermittelungstheologie''). At Göttingen he remained, declining all further calls elsewhere, as to Erlangen, Kiel, Halle, Tübingen, Jena and [[Leipzig]],{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=105}} until his death.<ref>[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:L%C3%BCcke,_Friedrich ADB:Lücke, Friedrich] at [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]</ref>

Lücke, who was one of the most learned, multilateral and influential of the so-called "mediation" school of evangelical theologians (''Vermittelungstheologie''), is now chiefly known by his ''Commentar über die Schriften des Evangelisten Johannes'' (4 vols., 1820–1832).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=O_gOG8ei4PUC&dq=%22Gottfried+Christian+Friedrich+L%C3%BCcke%22&pg=PA229 History of New Testament Research: From deism to Tübingen] by William Baird</ref> He is an intelligent maintainer of the Johannine authorship of the Fourth Gospel; in connection with this thesis he was one of the first to argue for the early date and non-apostolic authorship of the [[Apocalypse]]. His ''Einleitung in die Offenbarung Johannes'' was published in 1832.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|pp=105–106}} He also published a ''Synopsis evangeliorum Matthaei, Marci et Lucae cum parallelis Joannis pericopis'', jointly with [[W. M. L. de Wette]] (1818).<ref>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009706703 Synopsis evangeliorum] HathiTrust Digital Library</ref>

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*{{EB1911|wstitle=Lücke, Gottfried Christian Friedrich|volume=17||pages=105–106}}
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