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lius, which are little more than compilations from the Fathers, especially Origen, are as follows: Colleetanea in omnes beati Pauli epistolas; Explanatiuncula de breviariorum et capitulorum canonumque diferentia; Explanationes in prcefationea sancti Hieronymi ad- evangelic; and De rectoribus Christianis et conventientibus regulis quibus est respublica rite gubernanda (all ed., most conveniently, in MPL, ciii. 1-351). Johannes Trithemius, who confuses Sedulius Scotus with his more distinguished namesake, as well as with Bishop Sedulius, ascribes to him (De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, cap. exlii.), in addition to the works already mentioned, De miracelis Christi; Ad Theodosium imperatorem; In majus volumen Prisciani; In secundam editionem Donati; Exhortatorium ad ftdeles; and Epistolce ad diversos. BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. Healy, Inaula sanctorum d dwtorum, pp. 30-39, 574-578, Dublin, 1890; Lanigan, Ecd. Hid., i. 17, iii. 255; DCB, iv. 600; DNB, li. 188-189; Ceillier, Au· teurs saeris, xu. 357-381.

SEEBERG, s6'berg, OSKAR THEODOR ALFRED: Russo-German Protestant; b. at Pedua, Esthonia, Russia, Sept. 24, 1863. He was educated at the universities of Dorpat (1884-89), Erlangen, and Leipsic (1891). In 1890 he was teacher of religion at the municipal school for girls in Dorpat, and in 1891, after his return from Germany, he resumed this position, being also chosen assistant pastor of St. Peter's, Dorpat. In the same year he became privat-docent at the University of Dorpat, where he was promoted to the rank of docent within a few months; in 1895 he was appointed associate professor of New-Testament exegesis, and 1897 full professor of the same subject; in 1908 he went to Rostock in the same capacity. In theology he belongs to the liberal school, and has written Die Anbetung des Herrn bei Paulus (Riga, 1891); Der Tod Christi in seiner Bedeutung fur die Erlosung (Leipsie, 1895); Der Katechismus der Urchristenheit (1903); Das Evangelium Christi (1905); Die Taufe im Neuen Testament (Gross-Lichterfelde, 1905); Die beiden Wege and das Apostddekret (Leipsie, 1906); Die Leiden der Christen (Barmen, 1906); Die Didache des Judentums and der Urchristenheit (Leipsic, 1908); and Christi Person and Werk nach der Lehre seiner Junger (1910).

SEEBERG, REINHOLD: German Lutheran; b. at PSrrafer, Livonia, Apr. 5, 1859. He was educated at the universities of Dorpat (1878-82) and Erlangen (1882-84; mag. theol., Dorpat, 1884). In 1884 he became privat-docent for systematic theology at the former university, where he was appointed associate professor and second university preacher in the following year. In 1889 he was called to Erlangen as professor of church history and New-Testament exegesis, his chair being changed in 1894 to that of systematic theology. Since 1898 he has been professor of systematic theology at the University of Berlin. He has written Der Begrif der chrVtlichen Kirche, i (Erlangen, 1885); Der Apologet Aristides (1894); Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (2 vols., Leipsic, 1895-98, new ed., 1907-08); Gewissen and Gewissensbildung (Er langen, 1896) ; Die Kirche and die soziale Frage (Leipsie, 1897) ; Die Stellung Melanchthons in der Geschichte der Kirche and der Wissenschaft (Erlan-

gen, 1897); Die Theologie des Duns Scotus (Leipsie, 1900); GrundrimderDogmengeschichte(1901; 3ded., 1910); An der Schwelle des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts (1901) ; Luthers Stellung zu den sittlichen and sozialen N6ten seiner Zeit (1901); Die Grundwahrheiten der chrisllichzn Religion. (1902; Eng. transl., Fundamental Truths of the Christian Religion, New York, 1908); Luther and Luthertum in der neuesten katholischen Beleuchtung (1904); Das Abendmahl im Neuen Testament (Gross-Lichterfelde, 1905); Aus Religion and Geschichte (2 vols., Leipsic, 1906-08) ; Die kirchliche soeiale Idee (1907); Ofenbarung and Inspiration (1908; Eng. tranal., Revelation and Inspiration, New York, 1910); Von Christus and von dem Christentum (Berlin, 1908); Sinaliehkeit and Sittliehkeit (1909); Adolf Stoecker (1909); and Alto and Neue Moral (1910).

SEEBOHM, FREDERIC: Barrister and author; b. at Bradford, Yorkshire, 1833. He was called to the bar (Middle Temple) in 1856. His published works include: The Facts of the Four Gospels (London, 1861); The Crisis of Emancipation in America; being the Review of the History of Emancipation from the Beginning of the American War to the Assassination of President Lincoln (1865); The Oxford Reformers of 1/H98: being a History of the Fellow-Work of John Colet, Erasmus and Thomas More (1867); The Era of the Protestant Revolution (1874); The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems (1883); The Tribal System in Wales: being Part of an Inquiry into the Structure and Methods of tribal Society (1895); Travelling Impressions in, and Notes on, Peru (1901); and Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law (1902).

SEEHOFER, sA'ho-fer, ARSACIUS: Bavarian Reformer; b. at Munich early in the sixteenth century; d. at Winnenden (20 m. n.e. of Stuttgart) 1542. He was educated at the universities of Ingolstadt and Wittenberg, at the latter place coming under the influence of Melanchthon. In the summer of 1523 he was charged with delivering exegetical lectures of Melanchthonian content, and, compromising documents being found in his residence, he was formally tried for heresy, seventeen articles drawn from his manuscript being deemed unsound. After a period of imprisonment, Seehofer recanted on Sept. 7, 1523, and was directed to retire to the monastery of Ettal. The affair caused great excitement, especially through publications by Argula von Stauff (q.v.), Luther, and a South German author, Martinus Reckenhofer of Clausen; whereupon the university resolved to demonstrate in a public disputation the justice of its course. Since, however, safe conduct was not granted to the opponents of the university, the disputation, which began on Apr. 11, 1524, and lasted several days, was without result. In some unknown way Seehofer escaped from his confinement, but nothing is known of his movements until 1528, when he was in Wittenberg, where Melanchthon recommended him as a teacher at Eisfeld. In 1530 he was in Prussia, and in 1532 in Augsburg, where internal ecclesiastical strife prevented him from accepting the deaconate offered him. In 1535 he