Johannes Weiss
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Johannes Weiss (December 13, 1863 – August 24, 1914) was a German Protestant theologian and biblical exegete. He was a member of the history of religions school.
Weiss was born in Kiel as son of Bernhard Weiss. A perpetual scholar, he studied in the University of Marburg, the University of Berlin, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Breslau. He then taught as a professor at Göttingen since 1890, at Marburg since 1895, and since 1908 at the University of Heidelberg. He wrote many influential books and papers, and was instrumental in the development of New Testament biblical criticism.[1] He was held in the highest regard by his contemporaries, and subsequent scholarship has continued to recognize his wide influence.[2]
Johannes Weiß died on 24 August 1914 in Heidelberg, at the age of 50. According to the Neue Deutsche Biographie, from May 1914 he was forced to abandon his teaching activity due to a cancerous illness, which led to his death a few months later.Kraus, Hans-Joachim (1961). "Weiß, Johannes". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 23 January 2026. Various contemporary academic accounts describe his end as having occurred after extremely intense and prolonged suffering (nach unsäglichem Leiden), which confirms the severity of the process that preceded his death.Schweitzer, Albert (1916). "Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung" (in German). Mohr Siebeck. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
