Steitz, Georg Eduard

Steitz, Georg Eduard, a German Protestant divine and doctor of divinity, was born July 25, 1810, at Frankfort-on-the-Main. In 1840 he passed his theological examination; and from 1842 until his death which occurred at his native place, Jan. 1, 1879, he occupied high positions in the Church. Besides his contributions to the first edition of Herzog's Real-Encyklopadie, the Studien u. Kritiken, and Jahrbucher fir deutsche Theologie, he published, Die Privatbeichte u.

Privatabsolution der luth. Kirche aus den Quellean des 16ten Jarhhunderts, hauptsächlich aus Luthers Schriften, etc. (Frankf.-on-the- Main, 1854): — Das romische Busssacrament, nach seineim bibl. Grunde und seiner geschichtlichen Entwickelung, etc. (ibid. 1854): — Die Melancthons u. Luthersherbergen zu Frankfurt a. M. (ibid. 1862). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2, 1267; Neue evangel. Kirchenzeitung, 1879, No. 19; but more especially Zur Erinnerung an Herrn Senior Dr. Theol. G.E. Steitz, Zwei Reden von Dr. Jung und Dr. Dechent (Frankf.-on-the-Main, 1879). (B.P.)

 
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