Friedrich Adolf Philippi (October 15, 1809, Berlin - August 29, 1882, Rostock) was a Lutheran theologian of Jewish origin. He was the son of a wealthy Jewish banker, a friend of Mendelssohn. Converted to Christianity in 1829, he studied philosophy and theology at Berlin and Leipzig (Ph.D. 1831), and became successively a teacher at a private school in Dresden and at the "Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium" at Berlin (1833). Wikipedia
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