​HAUSRATH, ADOLPH (1837–1909), German theologian, was born at Karlsruhe on the 13th of January 1837 and was educated at Jena, Göttingen, Berlin and Heidelberg, where he becamePrivatdozent in 1861, professor extraordinary in 1867 and ordinary professor in 1872. He was a disciple of the Tübingen school and a strong Protestant. Among other works he wroteDer Apostel Paulus (1865),Neutestamentliche Zeitgeschichte (1868–1873, 4 vols.; Eng. trans.),D. F. Strauss und die Theologie seiner Zeit (1876–1878, 2 vols.), and lives ofRichard Rothe (2 vols. 1902), andLuther (1904). His scholarship was sound and his style vigorous. Under the pseudonym George Taylor he wrote several historical romances, especiallyAntinous (1880), which quickly ran through five editions, and is the story of a soul “which courted death because the objective restraints of faith had been lost.”Klytia (1883) was a 16th-century story,Jetta (1884) a tale of the great immigrations, andElfriede “a romance of the Rhine.” He died on the 2nd of August 1909.