David Friedrich Strauss was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he explored via myth.
Strauss, c. 1870
Strauss's birthplace in Ludwigsburg
David Friedrich Strauss - Das Leben Jesu - book cover
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede, The M
David Strauss
…title of this work is Das Leben Jesu kritisch bearbeitet (Tübingen: 1835–1836), and it was translated from the fourth German edition into English by George Eliot (Marian Evans) (1819–1880) and published under the title The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (3 vols., London, 1846). Since the Hegelians in general…
Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in 1850
Portrait of George Eliot by Samuel Laurence, c. 1860
Photograph (albumen print) of George Eliot, c. 1865
Blue plaque, Holly Lodge, 31 Wimbledon Park Road, London