Duttenhofer, Christian Friedrich

Duttenhofer, Christian Friedrich a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born February 3, 1742, at Nilrtingen, in Wilrtemberg. He studied at Tubingen and Leipsic; was in 1771 deacon at Beilstein; in 1777, pastor at Grunan; and, in 1780, fourth preacher at St. Nicolaus, in Heilbronn; in 1800, was made senior of the ministry, and in 1806 the Helmstadt University honored him with the theological doctorate. He died March 17, 1814 leaving, Untersuchungen uber Pietismus (Halle, 1787): — Predigten (Heilbronn, 1792): — Geschichte der Religionsschwarmereien (ibid. 1796-99, 3 volumes; 2d ed. 1802): — Versuch uber den letzten Grundsatz der christlichen Sittenlehre (Tubingen, 1801): — Betrachtungen uber die Geschichte des Christenthums (Heilbronn, 1813). See Doring, Die gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, 1:349 sq.; Willer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:335, 484, 486, 732; 2:93, 208. (B.P.)