Works
- Hermeneutik und Kritik mit besonderer Beziehung auf das Neue Testament, lectures of 1805 to 1833, published after his death, 1838
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A German theologian and philosopher regarded as the founder of modern hermeneutics as a general theory of understanding. He held that interpretation joins a grammatical reading of the language with a psychological reading of the author, and moves in a circle between the parts of a text and the whole.