Resch, Alfred

RESCH, resh, ALFRED: German Lutheran; b. at Greiz (49 m. s. of Leipsic) Apr. 21, 1835. He was educated at the universities of Leipsic (1853–56) and Erlangen (1856–57), after which he was successively first teacher of religion and instructor in ancient languages at the Lutheran gymnasium at Wiborg, Finland (1857–59), a teacher at the Bürgerschule in Greiz (1860–61), and head teacher at the normal school in the same city (1861–63). From 1863 to 1900 he was first pastor and school-inspector at Zeulenroda, but since 1900 has lived in retirement, first in Jena and, since 1902, in Klosterlausnitz, near Jena, in Saxe-Altenburg. In theology he is a conservative and orthodox member of his denomination. He has written the following works on theological subjects: Die lutherische Rechtfertigungslehre dargestellt und gegen ihre neueste Verfälschung verteidigt (Berlin, 1868); Melodienbuch zu dem Landesgesangbuch der preussischen Landeskirche (Zeulenroda, 1875); Das Formalprinzip den Protestantismus, neue Prolegomena zu einer evangelischen Dogmatik (Berlin, 1876); Agrapha, aussercanonische Evangelienfragmente (Leipsic, 1889; 2d ed., 1906); Aussercanonische Paralleltexte zu den Evangelien (5 vols., 1893–97); Die Logia Jesu naeh dem griechischen and hebräischen Text wiederhergestellt (1898); Das lutherische Einigungswerk (Gotha, 1902); Der Paulinismus und die Logia Jesu in ihrem gegenseitigen Verhältnisse untersucht (Leipsic, 1904); and Das lutherische Abendmahl (1908).