David Strauss, a pioneer in the historical investigation of Jesus, begins publication of Das Leben Jessu, kritisch bearbeitet ("The life of Jesus, critically examined") in Tübingen.

Strauss had entered the University of Tübingen—the Tübinger Stift—in 1825.

The professors of philosophy there failed to interest him, but the theories of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Jakob Böhme, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel hd successively claimed his allegiance.

He became an assistant to a country clergyman in 1830, and nine months later, he accepted the post of professor in the Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren, where he would teach Latin, history and Hebrew.

Strauss had resigned his office to study under Schleiermacher and Hegel in Berlin in October 1831.

Hegel died just as he arrived, and though Strauss regularly attended Schleiermacher's lectures, it was only those on the life of Jesus that interested him.

Strauss had tried to find kindred spirits among the followers of Hegel but was not successful.

While under the influence of Hegel's distinction between Vorstellung and Begriff, Strauss had already conceived the ideas found in his two principal theological works: Das Leben Jesu (Life of Jesus) and Christliche Glaubenslehre (Christian Dogma).

Hegelians generally would not accept his conclusions.

Strauss had returned to Tübingen in 1832, lecturing on logic, Plato, the history of philosophy and ethics with great success., but he he resigned in the fall of 1833 to devote all his time to the completion of his Das Leben Jesu, published when he is twenty-seven years old.