WELLHAUSEN, JULIUS: German Protestant;
b. at Hameln (25 m. e.w. of Hanover) May 17, 1844.
He studied at Göttingen (Ph.D., 1870); became
privet-docent there (1870) in the theological faculty;
professor in the same faculty at Greifswald (1872);
associate professor of Semitics at Halls (1882)-in the
philosophical faculty; full professor of, the same
subject at Marburg (1885) and at G&ttiagen (1892).
$e is best known for his elaboration of .the theory
that the Pentateuch is post-exilic, and is, consequently, distinctly Jewish, rather than Hebraic or
Israelitic. He has written De gentibus et familiis.
Judceis quw
I Chron. ii. 4
enumerantur (Göttingen, 1870), Der Text der Bathes- Samuels untersucht
(187i), Pharisaer and Sad-uziier
(Greifswald, 1874), Geschichte Israels
(Berlin, 1878; 2d-6th eda.,
under
the title Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels, 18$3
1905; Eng, tr. by J. S. Smith and C. A. Menzies,
Edinburgh, 1885, 3d ed., 1891),.
Mohammed in Medina (1882),
Skizzen and Yorarbeiten (6 vols.,
1884-92), Abriss der Geschichte Israels and Judea;
Lieder der Hudhailiten (1884),
Composition des Hexateuchs
(1885; 3d ed., 1$99), Rests arabischen Heidentums
(1887; 2d ed.; 1897), Medina vor dem Islam;
Muhammads Gemalndeordnungen von Medina; seine
Schreiben und die Gesartdtschaften an ihrt
(1887), and Die kleinere Propheten übersetzt mit Noten
(1892; ..3d ed., 1898); Israelitische and jüdische Geschichte
(1894; 6th ed., i907); Der arabische Josippus
(1897); Die religios-politischen Oppositionsparteien im alien
Islam (1901); Des arabische Reich und sein Sturz
(1902); Das Evangelium Marei übersetzt
(1903; 2d ed., 1909); Matthcei (1904);
Lucce (1904), Johicnnis (1908); and
Einleitung in die drei ersten Evartgelien
(1905); and he also prepared the sixth edition of
F. Bleek's Einleitung in das Alte Testament
(Berlin, 1893), and Psalms for the
Polychrome Bible (New
York, 1895).
WELLS, AMOS RUSSEL:. CongregationaliatPresbyterian layman; b. at Glens Falls, N. Y., Dec.
23, 1862. He received his education in the public
schools of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and
Antioch College (B.A., 1883); was professor of Greek in his alma
mater, 1883-92, and in 1892 assumed his present
position of editorial secretary for the United Society of Christian Endeavor. Has also been managing editor, since 1892, of
The Christian Endeavor
World,
and is associate editor of Peloubet's
Notes ore
the International Sunday-School Lessons.
His position theologically is that of a conservative Calvinist.
He is a prolific writer, having produced about fifty
volumes or booklets, classified into stories, essays,
devotional works, poems, books for young people's
societies, on the Bible, and on the Sunday-school.
Of these mention may be made (1) of the essay
Sermons in Stones
(New York, 1899); How
to Work,
How to Play, How to Study
(3 vols., Boston, 1900);
Into All the World
(1903);
Studies in the Art of
Illustration
(New York, 1903);
Help for the Tempted
(Boston, 1903); and
That They All may be One
(New
York, 1905). (2) Among devotional works mention may be made of
When thou bast Shut thy Door
(New York, 1895); and
The Cheer Book
(1901).
For young people's societies there are
The Junior
Manual
(Boston, 1895); and
Prayer Meeting Methods
(1896). For the Sunday-school there are
Sunday-School Problems
(1895);
Sunday-School Success
(New York, 1897);
Three Years with the Children
(1900);
Introduction to Bible Study
(Philadelphia,
1909); and
Why we believe the Bible
(1910).
