Otto Eissfeldt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Eissfeldt

German theologian

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1887

Place of Birth: Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Apr-1973

Profession: theologian, university teacher, biblical scholar

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Otto Eißfeldt, spelled alternatively Otto Eissfeldt, (September 1, 1887, in Northeim – April 23, 1973, in Halle) was a German Protestant theologian, known for his work on the Old Testament and comparative near-east religious history.
His magisterial 860-page The Old Testament: An Introduction (1934, 1965), giving a detailed literary-critical assessment of the history of the formation of each part of the Old Testament on the basis of the documentary hypothesis, has been called the "best of its kind".