Kayser, August

Kayser, August a Protestant theologian, was born at Strasburg, February 14, 1821. For some years assistant librarian at the university of his native place, and private tutor from 1843 to 1855, he accepted, in 1858, a call. as preacher to Stossweiler. In 1868 he went to Neuhof, in Alsace, was appointed professor of theology at Strasburg in 1873, and died there, June 17, 1885. Kayser belonged to the so-called liberal Protestants, and contributed largely to the Revue de Theologie. He published De Justini Martyris

Doctrina (Strasburg, 1850), but his main work is Das vorexilische Buch der Urgeschichte Israels und seine Erweiterungen (1874). (B.P.)