Reischle, Max Wilhelm Theodor

REIHCHLE, rai'shle, MAX WILHELM THEODOR: German Protestant; b. in Vienna June 18, 1858; d. at Halle Dec. 11, 1905. He was educated at the universities of Tubingen (1876-80), Gottingen, and Berlin (1882-83), interrupting his studies while vicar at Gmond, Warttemberg, in 1881-82. He was a lecturer at the theological seminary at Tilbingen (1883-88), having official permission to lecture in the university of the same city. He was then a teacher in a gymnasium at Stuttgart (18881892); professor of practical theology at the University of Giessen (1892-95); was called to Gottingen as professor of systematic theology (1895); and in the same capacity to the University of Halle (1896). In theology he belonged to the school of Ritschl. He wrote: Ein Wort zur Kontroverse fiber die Mystik in der Theologie (Freiburg, 1886); Die Frage nach dem Wesen der Religion, Grundlegung zu einer Methodologie der Religimesphilosophie (1889); Dos akademische Studium and der Kampf um die Weltanschauung (Gottingen, 1894); Die Spielen der Kinder in seinem Erziehungswert (1897); Christliche Glaubenslehre in Leitsdtzen fur eine akademische Vorlesung entxoickelt (Halle, 1899); Welturteile and Glaubensurteile (1900); Jam Worte von der eungen Bestimmung der Menschenaeele in religionsge8chiehtlieher Beleuchtung (1902); Theologie and Religionageschichte (Tilbingen, 1904); and the posthumous Aufsdfize and Vortrage, ed. T. Haring and F. Loofs (1906), contains biographical introduction.

REITZ, raits, JOHANN HEINRICH: German Reformed and mystic; b. at Oberdiebach (a village near Bacharach, 22 m. s.s.e. of Coblenz) 1655; d. at Wesel (32 m. n.w. of Dusseldorf) Nov. 25, 1720. He was educated at Leyden and Bremen, in the latter city coming under pietistic influences. Completing his studies at Heidelberg, he taught at Frankenthal, until 1681, when he was called to the pastorate of Freinsheim. Here he remained until compelled to flee by the War of the Palatinate in 1689, and during this first pastorate completed his Latin translation of the Moses and Aaron of Thomas Godwin (Bremen, 1684). He then became inspector of churches and schools in the district of Ladenburg, only again to be driven out by war. He next preached for a time at Asslaa, and a few years later was made inspector at Braunfels. Here, however, his attempt to convert a mystio to the ways of faith led to his own fall from orthodoxy, and he was deposed and expelled. For a time he was pastor at Homberg-vor-derHohe, and then went to Frankfort, justifying his tenets in his Kurtzer Begriiif des Leidens, der Lehre and de-8 Verhaltem J. H. Reitzens (Offenbach, 1698), manifesting a mixture of Reformed orthodoxy and ehiliasm, He now wandered about with other enthusiasts, founding " Philadelphian " societies, and enjoying the favor of noble sympathizers. For some three years he resided at Offenbach, attacking the Heidelberg Catechism in his Kurtzer Vortrag von der Gerechtigkeit, die viir

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