Albert Kalthoff was born in 1850 at Barmen, and is engaged in pastoral work in Bremen.
Against Kalthoff: Wilhelm Bousset, Was wissen wir von Jesus? (What do we know about Jesus?) Lectures delivered before the Protestantenverein at Bremen. Halle, 1904. 73 pp. In reply: Albert Kalthoff, Was wissen wir von Jesus? A settlement of accounts with Professor Bousset. Berlin, 1904. 43 pp.
A sound historical position is set forth in the clear and trenchant lecture of W. Kapp, Das Christus- und Christentumsproblem bei Kalthoff. (The problem of the Christ and of Christianity as handled by Kalthoff.) Strassburg, 1905. 23 pp.
“Jesus,” by Jülicher, in Die Kultur der Gegenwart. (An encyclopaedic publication which is appearing in parts.) Teubner, Berlin, 1905, pp. 40-69.
See also W. Bousset, “Jesus,” Religionsgeschichtliche Volksbücher. (A series of religious-historical monographs.) Published by Schiele, Halle, 1904.
Here should be mentioned also the thoughtful book, following very much the lines of Jülicher, by Eduard Grimm, entitled Die Ethik Jesu, Hamburg, 1903, 288 pp. The author, born in 1848, is the chief pastor at the Nicolaikirche in Hamburg.
Another work which deserves mention is Arno Neumann, Jesu wie er geschichtlich war (Jesus as he historically existed), Freiburg, 1904, 198 pp. (New Paths to the Old God), a Life of Jesus distinguished by a lofty vein of natural poetry and based upon solid theological knowledge. Arno Neumann is headmaster of a school at Apolda.
La Vie inconnue de Jésus-Christ. Paris, 1894. 301 pp. German, under the title Die Lücke im Leben Jesu (The Gap in the Life of Jesus). Stuttgart, 1894. 186 pp. See Holtzmann in the Theol. Jahresbericht, xiv. p. 140.
In a certain limited sense the work of A. Lillie, The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity (London, 1893), is to be numbered among the fictitious works on the life of Jesus. The fictitious element consists in Jesus being made an Essene by the writer, and Essenism equated with Buddhism.
Among “edifying” romances on the life of Jesus intended for family reading, that of the English writer J. H. Ingraham, The Prince of the House of David, has had a very long lease of life. It appeared in a German translation as early as 1858, and was reissued in 1906 (Brunswick).