BAUER, GEO. LORENZ, Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Oriental Languages at Heidelberg, was born 14th August and died 12th January 1806. He was a voluminous writer on biblical and theological subjects. His hermenentical works are his most valuable. Along with Dathe he edited Glassii Phil. Sac. nostris temporibus accommodate, of which the second volume especially is his, Lips. 1796. He wrote also Ententif einer Iltrnzeneutik des A. and N. T., Leipz. 1799 ; which contains the substance of an earlier work, Ilermenentica V. T., Lips. 1797. These works are deeply tinged with neologianism ; but, apart from this, are valu able. The edition of Glass's work ought rather to have appeared as a new work ; for it omits much which that author would have deemed essential, and introduces much that would have filled him with indignation. Of the Hermeneutik des A. one N. T., Dr. Davidson says, ' It exhibits good arrange ment, great perspicuity, an unusual power of con densation, and no small acuteness. Unhappily, however,' he adds, the neology of the author is apparent' (Hermen. p. 702). Bauer wrote also Die
laeinen Pmph. abets. and mit comment, erldutert, 2 vols., Leipz. 1786-90 ; Theologie des A. T oder Abriss der relig. Begriffe der Allen Hebrlier, Leipz. 1796 ; Biblische Theologie des N. T, 4 v ols. , Leipz. 180o-2 ; and several works on biblical antiquities and theology. Bauer was the first openly to apply the term mythology to the divine revelations of Scripture, and to speak of the biblical narratives as myths. He even went the length of issuing a work entitled Hebriiische 111:ythologie des A. and N. T. mit par allelen ens der lliythol. anderen Volker'', etc., 2 vols., Leipz. 1802. These works of the auda cious author' (dreiste verfasser), as Tholuck calls him (Vermischte Schr. ii. 141) have long since ceased to command any respect. A translation into English of his Theology of the Old Testament appeared in 1838, but it excited no attention, and was felt to be simply offensive.—W. L. A.