Friedrich Adolf Philippi (October 15, 1809 in Berlin – August 29, 1882 inRostock) was aLutheran theologian ofJewish origin.

He was the son of a wealthy Jewish banker, a friend of theMendelssohn family.

Converted to Christianity in 1829, he studied philosophy and theology at Berlin andLeipzig (PhD 1831), and became successively a teacher at a private school inDresden and at the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium at Berlin (1833).

In 1837 he received his diploma as Lutheranminister, and in 1838 was admitted asprivatdozent to the theological faculty of theHumboldt University of Berlin.

In 1841 he was elected professor of theology at theImperial University of Dorpat; he received the degree ofD.D. "honoris causa" from theFriedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1843.

• Die Lehre vom Thätigen Gehorsam Christi, Berlin, 1841
• Kirchliche Glaubenslehre, Berlin, 1859 (Volumes 3-4)
• Kirchliche Glaubenslehre, Berlin, 1879 (Volumes 6)
• Commentar über den Brief Pauli an die Römer, Frankfurt, 1856
• De Celsi, Adversarii Christianorum, Philosophandi Genere, Berlin, 1868
• Vorlesungen über Symbolik, Gütersloh, 1883

• Biography at Jewish Encyclopedia
• Biography at HaGefen Publishing
• Contemporary Obituary:Friedrich Adolf Philippi—A Jewish Witness to the Gospel

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Isidore Singer &Frederick T. Haneman (1901–1906)."Friedrich Adolf Philippi". InSinger, Isidore; et al. (eds.).The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.

• Converts to Lutheranism from Judaism
• 1809 births
• 1882 deaths
• 19th-century German Jews
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• Writers from Berlin

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