De Wette, Wilhelm Martin Leberecht, a German theologian, born near Weimar; studied at Jena, professor of Theology ultimately at Basel; was held in high repute as a biblical critic and exegete; contributed largely to theological literature; counted a rationalist by the orthodox, and a mystic by the rationalists; his chief works “A Critical Introduction to the Bible” and a “Manual to the New Testament” (1780‒1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
D'Ewes, Sir Simonds * De Witt, Jan