Otto Zöckler
1833–1906
German Lutheran theologian. Studied theology at Giessen to become a secondary school teacher, 1851–4. Studied for entrance to the Lutheran clergy at Friedberg, 1856. Habilitated in theology at Giessen and began teaching in 1856. Attended lectures on botany, zoology, chemistry, and experimental physics. Wrote several critiques of Darwinism based on theological and philosophical arguments.
Sources
BJDN
Gregory 1991
Gregory 1992
Bibliography
BJDN: Biographisches Jahrbuch und deutscher Nekrolog. Under the general supervision of Anton Bettelheim et al. 18 vols. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer. 1897–1917.
Gregory, Frederick. 1991. Darwin and the German theologians. In World views and scientific discipline formation: science studies in the German Democratic Republic: papers from a German-American Summer Institute, 1988, edited by William R. Woodward and Robert S. Cohen. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Gregory, Frederick. 1992. Nature lost? Natural science and the German theological traditions of the nineteenth century. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press.
