{{Infobox_Biography |
subject_name = Heinrich Paulus |
image_name = Heinrich Paulus.jpg|
image_caption = Heinrich Paulus. |
date_of_birth = 1_September 1761 |
place_of_birth = Leonberg, Kingdom_of_Prussia |
dead=dead |
date_of_death = 10_August, 1851 |
place_of_death = Heidelberg, Prussia
}}
'''Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus''' (born 1_September 1761, died 10_August 1851) was a German theologian and critic of the Christian_bible. He is known as a rationalist who offered natural explanations for the biblical Miracles_of_Jesus.
Paulus was a professor of theology and oriental languages at the University_of_Jena (1789-1803), then professor at the University_of_Würzburg (1803-1807). He spent time in Bamberg, Nürnberg and Ansbach before becoming professor of exegesis and church history at the University_of_Heidelberg (1811-44), where he was instrumental in hiring Hegel in 1816. His theological rationalism greatly influenced Hegel's own theology.
As a Lutheran in the Age_of_Enlightenment, he firmly believed in the autonomy of the individual and freedom of the individual (through reason) from the dogma of the church.
Charges of Anti-semitism have been levelled at Paulus for his advocacy of assimilation of Jewish people into German culture. In his published pamphlet "The Jewish National Separation: Its Origin, Consequences, and the Means of its Correction." he argued that "Jews were a nation apart, and would remain so as long as they were committed to their religion, whose basic intent and purpose were to preserve them in that condition. In a country that was not their own, therefore, Jews could not claim more than the bare protection of their lives and possessions. They might certainly not claim political equality."http://pnews.org/art/1art/MOSEShess.shtml
==Published works==
*1802, ''Philologisch-kritischer und historischer Kommentar über das neue Testament'' (Philological criticism and historical commentary on the New Testament)
*1828, ''Das Leben Jesu als Grundlage einer reinen Geschichte des Urchristentums'' (The life of Jesus as the basis of a purely historical account of early Christianity; 2 vols.)
==See also==
*Deism
*David_Friedrich_Strauss
*Swoon_hypothesis ("Scheintod" (apparent death) in Paulus' words)
==External links==
*List of works by and about Paulus (in German)
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