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STEINBECK, stain'bec, FRANZ ALBERT JOHANNES: Lutheran; b. at Potsdam (17 m. s.w. of Berlin) Aug. 6, 1873. He received his education at the Kloster Gymnasium at Magdeburg, and at the universities of Erlangen and Berlin; he was then a private tutor at Rome and Potsdam; served as inspector and next as assistant preacher at the cathedral in Berlin; was pastor at Erfurt, 1903-08; he then became extraordinary professor of practical theology in the University of Greifswald. He has published Das Verhdltnis von Theologie and Erkenntnis-Theorieen (Leipsie, 1898); Das g5ttliche Selbstbewusstsein Jesu nach dem Zeugnis der Synoptiker. Fine Untersuehung zur Christologie (1908); and Der Konfirmandenunterricht each Stoffwahl, Charakter and Aufbau (1909).

STEINDORFF, stain'd8rf, GEORG: Egyptologist; b. at Dessau Nov. 12, 1861. He was educated at the universities of Berlin and Gottingen (Ph.D., 1884), and was in Berlin from 1885 to 1893 as an assistant at the Royal Museum, being also privat-docent for Egyptology at the university in 1890-93. In 1893 he was called to Leipsic as associate professor of the same subject, becoming honorary professor in 191)0 and being appointed to his present position of full professor in 1904. He has made extensive travels and excavations in Egypt, afld in 1904 delivered a course of lectures in the United States under the auspices,of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions. Besides editing the German translation of G. Maspero's L'Archgologie 4gyptienne (Leipsie, 1889); G. Eber's AegyptischeStudien undVerwandtes (Stuttgart, 1899); Baedeker's Egypten (Leipsic, 1901); and Urkunden des agyptischen Altertums (1904 sqq.); he has written Koptische Crrammcotik (Berlin, 1894); Crrabfurtde des mittleren Reichs in den koniglichen Museen zu Berlin (2 vols., 18971901); Die Apoka.lypse des Elias, eine unbekanate Apokalypse and Bruchstueke der Sophonias-Apokalypse (Leipsic, 1898); Die Bliithezeit des Pharaonen.reiches (Bielefeld, 1900); Durch die libysche Wiiste zur Amonsoase (1905); and The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians (New York, 1905). He is also editor of the Urkunden des agyptischen Altertums (1904-08), and of the Zeitschrift fur agyptische Sprache and Altertumskunde (in collaboration with A. Erman).

STEINHOFER, stain'ho-fer, MAXIMILIAN FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH: German theologian; b. at Owen (18 m. s.e. of Stuttgart) Jan. 16, 1706; d. at Weinsberg (27 m. n. of Stuttgart) Feb. 11, 1761. After studying theology at Tiibingen, he visited Herrnhut and met Count Zinzendorf (q.v.), who secured his appointment as court chaplain to the count of Reuss at Ebersdorf. He entered with his congregation the fellowship of the Unity of the Brethren in 1746, but after two years retired from it and returned to Wurttemberg, where he occupied various pastoral fields. Steinhofer had a remarkably impressive and pious personality. He belonged to the Wiirttemberg school of Biblical theology, His aim was to enrich and deepen the Christian knowledge of redemption, and his interpretation of Scripture was conveyed with a warm

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Besides the autobiography in the T&gliche Nahrung, ut sup., consult: C. Gro;ase, Die alters Tr6ster, pp. 4B1-488, Hermannsburg, 1900; A. Knapp, Altwurttemberpische Charaktere, Stuttgart, 170.

STEINHUBER, stain'hu-ber, ANDREAS: Jesuit and cardinal; b. at Uttlau (l;i m. s.w. of Passau), Bavaria, Nov. 11, 1825; d. in Rome Oct. 15, 1907. He studied first at Passau, ;hen in the Collegia Germanica in Rome (1845-54), fitting himself for the priesthood. Having returned to Bavaria he was a secular priest, and as such catechist to the children of Duke Maximilian. In 1854 he entered the Society of Jesus, taught philosophy, then theology, in the University of Innsbruck, but from 1867 to 1880 was rector of th: Collegia Germanica in Rome. He then became con sultant to the Propaganda and Inquisition. In 1,394 Leo XIII. made him a cardinal deacon, with the title St. Agatha in Suhurra; and called him= to the prefecture of the Index. He exerted great influence during the latter part of the pontificate of Leo XIII. and under the present pope. He was sternly opposed to the ideas comprehended under Modernism (q.v.) and urged the pope to issue his encyclical Pascendi domini,ci gregis (Sept. 8, 1907) condemnatory of it. His principal publication is Geschichte des Colleyium Cermanirum-Hungaricum in Rom (2 vols., Freiburg, 1895).

STEINMEYER, stnin'mai-er, FRANZ KARL LUDWIG: German Evangelical theologian; b. at Beeskow (43 m. s.e. of Berlin) Nov. 15, 1811; d. at Berlin Feb. 5, 1900. In 1830 he entered the University of Berlin where he came into close personal contact with Neander and was influenced by Schleiermacher's preaching. In 1835 at the Seminar at Wittenberg he was permanently won by Richard Rothe (q.v.); he was assistant, preacher in the same institution, 1837-40; and in 1840 accepted a call as preacher and teacher to the military academy in Kulm; in 1843 he became preacher in NOwawes, a colony of Bohemian weavers near Potsdam. In 1848 he established himself a.. privat-docent at the University of Berlin, and in the following year became also first preacher of the Charity, the famous hospital of Berlin. Here his extraordinary gifts of preaching showed themselves for the first time, and a select congregation gathered under his pulpit. In 1852 he was called as professor to Breslau where he taught exegesis and dogmatics; in 1854 he accepted a call to Bonn as professor of practical theology and preacher to the university, and in 1853 removed to Berlin as professor of the New